Designating a pistol or other firearm whose barrel is unscrewed and removed in order to load the projectile into the exposed breech. Now chiefly histo…
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| 释义 | society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > [adjective] > by type of loading (4) screw-barrel1691 Designating a pistol or other firearm whose barrel is unscrewed and removed in order to load the projectile into the exposed breech. Now chiefly histo… muzzle-loading1856 (of a gun) loaded through the muzzle. breech-loading1858 That is loaded at the breech. ram and dam1866 ram and damn (more fully ram and damn gun) (humorous) a muzzle-loading gun. Also ram and dam. Obsolete. |
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