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Muzzle-loader   Listen
noun
Muzzle-loader  n.  A firearm which receives its charge through the muzzle, as distinguished from one which is loaded at the breech.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Muzzle-loader" Quotes from Famous Books



... voice from the bottom of the ravine, crying out, 'Bring the guns for God's sake! Make haste! Bring the guns!' I rushed about in the dark, tumbling over the saddles, but could nowhere lay my hands on a rifle. Still the cry was for 'Guns!' My own, a muzzle-loader, was discharged, but a rifle none the less. Snatching up this, and one of my pistols, which, by the way, had fallen into the river a few hours before, I shouted for Samson, and ran headlong to the rescue. Before I got to ...
— Tracks of a Rolling Stone • Henry J. Coke



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