Definitions for chassepots

chassepots chasse·pot

Spelling: [shas-poh; French shas-poh]
IPA: /ˈʃæs poʊ; French ʃasˈpoʊ/

Chassepots is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 651 anagrams from letters in chassepots (acehopssst).

Definitions for chassepots

noun

  1. a breechloading rifle, closed with a sliding bolt, introduced into the French army after 1866.

Origin of chassepots

1865-70; named after A. A. Chassepot (1833-1905), French mechanic, who invented it

Examples for chassepots

A soldier placing his chassepot at his ear blew out his brains.

An officer ascended the steps, approached the corpse, and discharged his chassepot into the left temple.

Though doubtful of his ability to "tell at sight a chassepot rifle from a javelin," I was in no way surprised.

He was collecting chassepots, and received five sous for every chassepot he brought in.

The Commission of Pardons awaited, chassepot in hand, the prey given up to them by the courts-martial.

Here and there a rifleman stood, his chassepot resting on the iron railing, his face turned towards the woods.

Odious repetition of those words, "Order reigns in Warsaw," and "The chassepot has done wonders."

"The countersign," reiterated the garde, still holding his chassepot in the previous threatening manner.

chassepot, shas′po, n. the kind of bolt-action breechloading rifle adopted by the French army in 1866.

Its only tenant was a sentinel, yellow with jaundice, who seized his chassepot with shaking hands and called a shrill "Qui Vive?"

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