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chasse·pot (s̸has pō′)

noun

a breech-loading rifle used by the French army between 1866 and 1874

Etymology: after A. A. Chassepot (1833-1905), Fr inventor

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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