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muzzle-loader
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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a kind of bunk placed in banks at right angles to the wall so that the user must crawl in head first and out feet first (as in charging a muzzle-loading gun).
See: muzzle-loading bunk
Quotations
1919
Then in other camps you have "muzzle-loaders": --Bunks arranged cross-wise of the bunkhouse (double deckers also). As the name signifies, you have to crawl into them head first, and out feet first.
1919
Bunks are double and double-deckers, and some muzzle loaders.