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chasse⋅pot

  [shas-poh; Fr. shas-poh]
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–noun, plural -pots  [-pohz; Fr. -poh] .
a breechloading rifle, closed with a sliding bolt, introduced into the French army after 1866.
Origin:
1865–70; named after A. A. Chassepot (1833–1905), French mechanic, who invented it
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chasse·pot   (shās'pō')   
n.  A breechloading rifle introduced into the French army in 1866.

[French, after Antoine Alphonse Chassepot (1833-1905), French gunsmith.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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