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muzzle-loader

British  

noun

  1. a firearm receiving its ammunition through the muzzle

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The firearms included an unloaded Remington Nylon 66 .22 caliber rifle, an unloaded Connecticut Valley Arms .50 caliber muzzle-loader, a loaded Mossberg .410 caliber shotgun and a Gamo pellet gun.

From Fox News Jan. 13, 2022

It is a muzzle-loader, works on air at 50 lbs. pressure.

From Time Magazine Archive

He said what happened to a stone after I chunked it was like a ball shot out one n’em old muzzle-loader rifles.

From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis

A good muzzle-loader could on average fire about three to four shots a minute.

From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly

It was a muzzle-loader and after wiping it out carefully at the doctor's quarters I found one of the tubes were stopped up.

From Little Pills, An Army Story Being Some Experiences of a United States Army Medical Officer on the Frontier Nearly a Half Century Ago by McKay, Robert Henderson

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