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Flintlock

noun

A muzzle loader that had a flintlock type of gunlock. Synonym: firelock.

An obsolete gunlock that has flint embedded in the hammer; the flint makes a spark that ignites the charge.

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"Flintlock" Quotes from Famous Books

... provinces, and the Virginias, sailing to the West Indies with their cargoes of salt fish, grain, and tobacco. Trading became almost as dangerous as privateering, and sea captains were chosen as much for their knowledge of the flintlock and the cutlass as ...

— Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates • Howard Pyle

... chiefly to make coffins and highly painted and decorated clothes-boxes. The latter are mostly gun-makers, and bore the barrels of guns by hand out of solid bars of iron. At this tedious operation they may be seen every day, and they manage to finish off a gun with a flintlock very handsomely. All about the streets are sellers of water, vegetables, fruit, soup, and agar-agar (a jelly made of seaweed), who have many cries as unintelligible as those of London. Others carry a portable cooking-apparatus on a pole balanced by a table ...

— The Malay Archipelago - Volume I. (of II.) • Alfred Russel Wallace

... supply. At first the gun chiefly used on the border was the smooth-bored musket. But toward the close of the eighteenth century a gunsmith named Deckhard, living at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, began making flintlock rifles of small bore, and in a short time the "Deckhard rifle" was to be found in the hands of almost every backwoodsman. The barrel was heavy and from three feet to three feet and a half in length, so that the ...

— The Old Northwest - A Chronicle of the Ohio Valley and Beyond, Volume 19 In - The Chronicles Of America Series • Frederic Austin Ogg

Words linked to "Flintlock" : gunlock, gunflint, muzzle loader, firing mechanism