muzzle-loader

noun

Rushing into the house, he snatched down his old muzzle-loader from the pegs where it hung on the kitchen wall.

The youngsters are still not anxious to buck against the muzzle-loader in off-hand shooting.

His clothes were thoroughly drenched, and his gun, which was a flint-lock and muzzle-loader, entirely useless.

The 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.

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