handloading
Meanings
noun
- The loading of cartridges for firearms when it is done by hand and (especially) at home (in semi-homemade manner): assembling them from the individual components (e.g., casing, primer, gunpowder or other charge, and shot or bullet).
- The loading of a firearm, usually a pistol or rifle, by hand.
verb
- present participle and gerund of handload
Word forms
Etymology
By surface analysis, hand + loading. The verb (handload) is possibly a back-formation from the noun.
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