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Muzzle-loading   /mˈəzəl-lˈoʊdɪŋ/   Listen
Muzzle-loading

adjective
1.
(of firearms) taking the projectile or cartridge through the muzzle.





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"Muzzle-loading" Quotes from Famous Books



... Nunez with them. Somebody might get hurt in this wild charge, but he must reach the treasure as soon as the others. He must not fail in that. But Sanchez made a great mistake when he supposed that Captain Horn and his men fought with such arms as the muzzle-loading rifles and shot—guns which the Arato's men had thought quite sufficient to bring with them for the work they had to do. Captain Horn, when he had fitted out the Miranda, had supplied himself and his two white men with fine repeating rifles, and ...
— The Adventures of Captain Horn • Frank Richard Stockton
... riffraff of adventurers from no one knew—or cared—where. It was a booted crowd with a goodly sprinkling of red shirts to give it color, and weapons in evidence on every side. Here walked one with a brace of long-barreled muzzle-loading pistols in his belt, and there another with the handle of a bowie-knife protruding from his boot-top; and every one of those frock-coated dealers at the tables had a Derringer or two stowed away on that portion of his person ...
— When the West Was Young • Frederick R. Bechdolt


Words linked to "Muzzle-loading" :   gun muzzle


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