What is "repeaters"

Usage examples of "repeaters".

A Federal weapon indeed, Lee thought: one of those fancy repeaters their cavalry like so well.

Afterwards, he thought that moment was the one when he first truly began to believe Andries Rhoodie, began to believe a trainload of fancy repeaters and ammunition could arrive from North Carolina.

The repeaters, which ever more of the Federal cavalry employ, have hurt his troopers badly.

Lee told himself that a trainload-maybe a great many trainloads-of repeaters and cartridges gave him the right to hold his tongue.

If he says we'll have repeaters here tomorrow, I'm inclined to believe him.

That way, everyone who learned about these repeaters yesterday will have one group to teach.

With one of these repeaters, especially on full automatic, it's easy as pie.

Most of the men drifted away, still talking excitedly about the new repeaters they were carrying.

They say these new repeaters come from there, and the people who make them or sell them or whatever it is they do.

The repeaters are robust, they are reasonably accurate with adequate range, and they and their ammunition appear to be available in quantities sufficient to permit us to take the field with them.

He quickly told the story of the new repeaters and the curiously accented men who supplied them, finishing, "We cannot outnumber the Federals.

When he finished by telling Custis what the Rivington men were selling their repeaters for, his son stared and exclaimed, "You're joking!

But I take it I am to infer from your ornaments that you are pleased with the performance of the new repeaters in action.

To deal with Andries Rhoodie, with the new repeaters in almost everyone's hands now, with the small, square ammunition crates growing to tall pyramids by every regiment's munitions wagons, with the occasional shipments of desiccated food that helped keep hunger from turning to starvation, was to believe.

The fascination with the new repeaters had not worn off in the month since they'd been issued.