MUZZLE LOADER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does muzzle loader mean? 

• MUZZLE LOADER (noun)
  The noun MUZZLE LOADER has 1 sense:

1. an obsolete firearm that was loaded through the muzzle

  Familiarity information: MUZZLE LOADER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MUZZLE LOADER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An obsolete firearm that was loaded through the muzzle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("muzzle loader" is a kind of...):

firearm; piece; small-arm (a portable gun)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "muzzle loader"):

arquebus; hackbut; hagbut; harquebus (an obsolete firearm with a long barrel)

firelock; flintlock (a muzzle loader that had a flintlock type of gunlock)

musket (a muzzle-loading shoulder gun with a long barrel; formerly used by infantrymen)