Muzzleloaders is an English word. Below you'll find 6 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Muzzleloaders meaning
plural of muzzleloader
Using Muzzleloaders
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of muzzleloader
Context around Muzzleloaders
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 1 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 6 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Muzzleloaders
- In this selection, "muzzleloaders" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 25 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, improved, shot, manufactured, causing and usually stand out and add context to how "muzzleloaders" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include all muzzleloaders manufactured since and effectiveness of muzzleloaders was hindered. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "muzzleloaders" sits close to words such as aaaaa, aage and aardvarks, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with muzzleloaders
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Prior to the 19th century, all handguns were single-shot muzzleloaders. (11 words)
Muzzleloaders have been known to fire after hanging on a wall for decades in a loaded state, provided they remained dry. (21 words)
All muzzleloaders manufactured since the second half of the 19th century use percussion caps except those built as replicas of the flintlock or earlier firearms. (25 words)
Before then, effectiveness of muzzleloaders was hindered by both the low reloading speed and, before the firing mechanism was perfected, the very high risk posed by the firearm to the person attempting to fire it. (35 words)
Breech-loading weapons proved to have a much faster rate of fire than muzzleloaders, causing military forces to abandon muzzle loaders in favor of breech-loading designs in the late 1860s. (31 words)
Greatly improved muzzleloaders (usually rifled instead of smooth-bored) are manufactured today and have many enthusiasts, many of whom hunt large and small game with their guns. (27 words)
Example sentences (6)
All muzzleloaders manufactured since the second half of the 19th century use percussion caps except those built as replicas of the flintlock or earlier firearms.
Before then, effectiveness of muzzleloaders was hindered by both the low reloading speed and, before the firing mechanism was perfected, the very high risk posed by the firearm to the person attempting to fire it.
Breech-loading weapons proved to have a much faster rate of fire than muzzleloaders, causing military forces to abandon muzzle loaders in favor of breech-loading designs in the late 1860s.
Greatly improved muzzleloaders (usually rifled instead of smooth-bored) are manufactured today and have many enthusiasts, many of whom hunt large and small game with their guns.
Muzzleloaders have been known to fire after hanging on a wall for decades in a loaded state, provided they remained dry.
Prior to the 19th century, all handguns were single-shot muzzleloaders.