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muzzle-loading

muzzle-loading adjective: describing a gun in which the ammunition is loaded at the front of the barrel.

Adjective

muzzle-loading (not comparable)

  1. Describing a gun in which the ammunition is loaded at the front of the barrel.

Questions about muzzle-loading

What does muzzle-loading mean?
Muzzle-loading means describing a gun in which the ammunition is loaded at the front of the barrel.
What part of speech is muzzle-loading?
Muzzle-loading is an adjective.

Words near muzzle-loading in the dictionary

  1. muzzle velocity
  2. muzzle-bag
  3. muzzle-bags
  4. muzzle-loader
  5. muzzle-loaders
  6. muzzle-loading
  7. muzzled
  8. muzzleless
  9. muzzlelike
  10. muzzleloader
  11. muzzleloaders

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