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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…
(of a gun) loaded through the muzzle.
That is loaded at the breech.
ram and damn (more fully ram and damn gun) (humorous) a muzzle-loading gun. Also ram and dam. Obsolete.