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Answer for the clue "Explosive container for muzzle-loading guns ", 11 letters:
powderflask

Word definitions for powderflask in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Powderflask \Pow"der*flask`\, n. A flask in which gunpowder is carried, having a charging tube at the end.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A flask in which gunpowder is carried, having a charging tube at the end.

Usage examples of powderflask.

It was lined with green baize and there were little fitted compartments that held a wadcutter, a pewter powderflask, cleaning jags, a patent pewter capper.

Brown halted his mount and got down and retrieved the sack of coins and took the boy's knife and took his rifle and his powderflask and his coat and he cut the ears from the boy's head and strung them onto his scapular and then he mounted up and rode on.

He moved into the creek on his belly and lay drinking, holding up the pistol and the powderflask and sucking at the water.