Definition of "muzzle-loading" [muz•zle-load•ing]

• Describing a gun in which the ammunition is loaded at the front of the barrel (adjective)

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• "For example, the founding fathers clearly intended for Americans to be free to carry muzzle-loading powder-and-ball muskets and personal swords to militia meetings."
• "A rabbit-skin sleeping-robe, a muzzle-loading rifle, and a few pounds of sun-dried salmon constituted his outfit."
• "References to seventeenth-century muzzle-loading musketry â¨technology become in Suskind's retelling references to twenty-first century â¨pornography."