muzzle loader

1. 1.

   an obsolete firearm that was loaded through the muzzle

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Questions about muzzle loader

What does muzzle loader mean?

muzzle loader means "an obsolete firearm that was loaded through the muzzle".

Is muzzle loader a common word?

muzzle loader is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.