muzzleloader
or muz·zle-load·er
a firearm that is loaded through the muzzle.
Origin of muzzleloader
1Other words from muzzleloader
- muz·zle·load·ing, adjective
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How to use muzzleloader in a sentence
Rushing into the house, he snatched down his old muzzle-loader from the pegs where it hung on the kitchen wall.
The Backwoodsmen | Charles G. D. RobertsThe youngsters are still not anxious to buck against the muzzle-loader in off-hand shooting.
Woodcraft and Camping | George Washington Sears (Nessmuk)His clothes were thoroughly drenched, and his gun, which was a flint-lock and muzzle-loader, entirely useless.
Seventy Years on the Frontier | Alexander MajorsThe attacking gun was a twelve-ton nine-inch muzzle-loader, of the old despised type, and the projectiles were shrapnel shell.
If in siege works or en barbette, it is much easier to load a muzzle loader under cover than a breech-loader.
British Dictionary definitions for muzzle-loader
a firearm receiving its ammunition through the muzzle
Derived forms of muzzle-loader
- muzzle-loading, adjective
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