1) Early firearm 2) Early modern firearm 3) English pop music group 4) Firearm action 5) Firelock 6) Multiple barrel firearm 7) Muzzle loader 8) Old-fashioned gun 9) Shooter with a spark
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1) Firelock 2) Gun 3) Musket
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Flintlock is the general term for any firearm based on the flintlock mechanism. The term may also apply to the mechanism itself. Introduced at the beginning of the 17th century, the flintlock rapidly replaced earlier firearm-ignition technologies, such as the doglock, matchlock, and wheellock mechanisms. It continued to be in common use for over t...
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• (n.) A lock for a gun or pistol, having a flint fixed in the hammer, which on striking the steel ignites the priming. • (n.) A hand firearm fitted with a flintlock; esp., the old-fashioned musket of European and other armies.
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Type of ignition mechanism on a firearm used from the early 17thC until the early 19thC. Sparks were generated by friction between a piece of flint and a steel plate, the frizzen. Below the frizzen is a pan set next to a touch-hole in the breech. The sparks ignited powder in the pan and, via the touch-hole, fired the main charge in the breech.
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ignition system for firearms, developed in the early 16th century. It superseded the matchlock and wheel lock and was itself outmoded by the ... [5 related articles]
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Type of ignition mechanism on a firearm used from the early 17thC until the early 19thC. Sparks were generated by friction between a piece of flint and a steel plate, the frizzen. Below the frizzen is a pan set next to a touch-hole in the breech. The sparks ignited powder in the pan and, via the touch-hole, fired the main charge in the breech.
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Flint'lock` noun 1. A lock for a gun or pistol, having a flint fixed in the hammer, which on striking the steel ignites the priming.
2. A hand firearm fitted with a flintlock; esp., the old-fashioned musket of European and other armies.
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A system of firearms ignition, in general use circa 1660
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The flintlock or flint-lock was a type of mechanism first used for guns and rifles, later also for pistols. The flintlock was first introduced at the end of the 16th century. The flintlock uses a piece of shaped flint held in screw tightened jaws which are pulled back in the cocked position. Pulling the trigger releases the jaws which flew forward ...
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n] - a muzzle loader having a flintlock type of gunlock 2. [n] - a gunlock that has flint embedded in the hammer
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noun a muzzle loader that had a flintlock type of gunlock
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noun an obsolete gunlock that has flint embedded in the hammer; the flint makes a spark that ignites the charge
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an outmoded gunlock in which a piece of flint striking against steel produces sparks that ignite the priming. · a firearm with such a lock.
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