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Loading
·noun A load; cargo; burden. II. Loading ·noun The act of putting a load on or into. III. Loading ...

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Muzzle
·vt To fondle with the closed mouth. II. Muzzle ·vi To bring the mouth or muzzle near. III. Muzzle...

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Muzzle
Grain in the East is usually thrashed by the sheaves being spread out on a floor, over which oxen an...

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muzzle
A beard. ...

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to muzzle
To loiter. In Yorkshire, England, they use the word muzlin, loitering, which seems to be the same; a...

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Breech-loading
·adj Receiving the charge at the breech instead of at the muzzle. ...

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Surface loading
·add. ·- The weight supported per square unit of surface; the quotient obtained by dividing the gros...

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loading-chamber
The paterero, or inserting piece in breech-loading. ...

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Muzzle-loader
·noun A firearm which receives its charge through the muzzle, as distinguished from one which is loa...

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muzzle-lashings
The ropes which confine the muzzles of lower-deck guns to the housing bolts. ...

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muzzle-ring
That which encompassed and strengthened the muzzle or mouth of a cannon; now disused. ...

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loading of a ship
See cargo and lading. ...

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muzzle to the left!
See muzzle to the right! ...

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muzzle to the right!
, or muzzle to the left! The order given to trim the gun to the object. ...

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muzzle of a piece of ordnance
The forward extremity of the cylinder, and the metal which surrounds it, extending back to the neck,...

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