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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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... may find trace of the Elizabethan Age—idioms lost from English literature and American speech long ago. There we may see the American home life as it went on more than a hundred years ago. We may see hanging on the wall the long muzzle-loading rifle of an earlier day. We may see the spinning-wheel and the loom. The women still make in part the clothing for their families, and the men still make their own household furniture, their own farming implements, their ...
— The Passing of the Frontier - A Chronicle of the Old West, Volume 26 in The Chronicles - Of America Series • Emerson Hough


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