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Definition of Muzzle-loading
1. Adjective. (of firearms) taking the projectile or cartridge through the muzzle.
Definition of Muzzle-loading
1. Adjective. Describing a gun in which the ammunition is loaded at the front of the barrel ¹
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Muzzle-loading
Literary usage of Muzzle-loading
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"To this the advocate of muzzle-loading will probably reply that shells are lobbed
with low velocities into %yorks only at considerable intervals of time, ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1911)
"The adoption of the muzzle-loading system with studded shot was a distinctly
retrograde step, as a considerable amount of clearance was necessary between ..."
3. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1902)
"England uses both breech and muzzle-loading cannon in her coast defense. ...
The coast artillery guns are the rilled muzzle-loading 64-pounders, 80-pounders ..."
4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1864)
"When the present series of experiments i- concluded, England will be able to take
tin1 field with 300, COO, and 1000-pounder muzzle-loading guns, ..."
5. Around an Old Homestead: A Book of Memories by Paul Griswold Huston (1906)
"HERE used to be (and still is) an old muzzle- loading rifle about the farm,
hanging generally in the lobby, which is just around the corner from the ..."
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