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handloader

handloader noun: someone who handloads their cartridges for firearms (shotguns, rifles, pistols, or revolvers).

Noun

handloader (plural handloaders)

  1. Someone who handloads their cartridges for firearms (shotguns, rifles, pistols, or revolvers).
    • Their household subscribes to a monthly magazine devoted specifically to handloaders.
    • […] it's a handloader’s dream in that it shoots well with most anything you put in it. I have shot bullets of all types, weights and shapes, including lead[,] and they all worked. Savage, Marlin, Remington and various imported rifles all are chambered […]1956, Pennsylvania Game Commission, editor, Pennsylvania Game News, volume 27, page 54
  2. A firearm, usually a pistol or rifle, into which cartridges are loaded manually.
    • So I told him he should ditch his handloader and get himself a nice autoloader, like an M1911.

Antonyms of handloader

Forms of handloader

pluralhandloaders

Questions about handloader

What does handloader mean?
Handloader means someone who handloads their cartridges for firearms (shotguns, rifles, pistols, or revolvers).
What part of speech is handloader?
Handloader is a noun.
What is the plural of handloader?
The plural of handloader is handloaders.

Words near handloader in the dictionary

  1. Handlins
  2. handlist
  3. handlists
  4. handload
  5. handloaded
  6. handloader
  7. handloaders
  8. handloading
  9. handloads
  10. handlock
  11. handlocked

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