A gun that is loaded through its muzzle.
Example sentencesExamples
- The American civil war was fought with a mixture of smooth-bores and rifled muzzle-loaders.
- Police seized two revolvers and three muzzle-loaders dating from the Anglo-Boer South African War.
- It was an ancient muzzle-loader held together with strapped wire!
- This muzzle-loader was fired by a percussion cap and shot a .58 caliber bullet.
- It's the wrong shape for a carronade, and a long muzzle-loader would probably still have had trunions.