muzzle loader

Other forms: muzzle loaders

Definitions of muzzle loader
  1. noun
    an obsolete firearm that was loaded through the muzzle
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    arquebus, hackbut, hagbut, harquebus
    an obsolete firearm with a long barrel
    firelock, flintlock
    a muzzle loader that had a flintlock type of gunlock
    musket
    a muzzle-loading shoulder gun with a long barrel; formerly used by infantrymen
    blunderbuss
    a short musket of wide bore with a flared muzzle
    culverin
    a medieval musket
    fusil
    a light flintlock musket
    matchlock
    an early style of musket; a slow-burning wick would be lowered into a hole in the breech to ignite the charge
    type of:
    firearm, piece, small-arm
    a portable gun
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