gun-loading

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For many years after the settlement of New England the Puritans, even in outwardly tranquil times, went armed to meeting; and to sanctify the Sunday gun-loading they were expressly forbidden to fire off their charges at any object on that day save an Indian or a wolf, their two "greatest inconveniencies."

Sabbath in Puritan New England Alice Morse Earle 1881
My routine as a 4-year-old did not consist of breakfast, playtime, nap time and gun-loading time.

The Seattle Times 2010