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Muzzle-loading

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Muz´zle-load`ing
a.1.Receiving its charge through the muzzle; as, a muzzle-loading rifle.
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Adj.1.muzzle-loading - (of firearms) taking the projectile or cartridge through the muzzle
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Another thing that surprised me was the fact that so much had been accomplished in so short a time, for I could not believe that I had been gone from Anoroc for a sufficient period to permit of building a fleet of fifty feluccas and mining iron ore for the cannon and balls, to say nothing of manufacturing these guns and the crude muzzle-loading rifles with which every Mezop was armed, as well as the gunpowder and ammunition they had in such ample quantities.
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