What is "loopers"

Usage examples of "loopers".

I found it to be a weapon of the most extraordinary accuracy up to a range of about two hundred yards, though when I rode off in that desperate hurry for Maraisfontein I did not take it with me because it was a single barrel and too small in the bore to load with loopers at a pinch.

I say that you have been using loopers, or else bullets that were sawn in quarters and glued or tied with thread.

Give me two guns, fill the saddle-bags with powder tins and loopers, and tie them to my mare.