Chassepot is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.
You can make 637 anagrams from letters in chassepot (acehopsst).
1865-70; named after A. A. Chassepot (1833-1905), French mechanic, who invented it
He was collecting chassepots, and received five sous for every chassepot he brought in.
chassepot, shas′po, n. the kind of bolt-action breechloading rifle adopted by the French army in 1866.
Though doubtful of his ability to "tell at sight a chassepot rifle from a javelin," I was in no way surprised.
"The countersign," reiterated the garde, still holding his chassepot in the previous threatening manner.
A soldier placing his chassepot at his ear blew out his brains.
Its only tenant was a sentinel, yellow with jaundice, who seized his chassepot with shaking hands and called a shrill "Qui Vive?"
Here and there a rifleman stood, his chassepot resting on the iron railing, his face turned towards the woods.
An officer ascended the steps, approached the corpse, and discharged his chassepot into the left temple.
The Commission of Pardons awaited, chassepot in hand, the prey given up to them by the courts-martial.
Odious repetition of those words, "Order reigns in Warsaw," and "The chassepot has done wonders."
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