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noun

Flintlock n.

A lock for a gun or pistol, having a flint fixed in the hammer, which on striking the steel ignites the priming.

A hand firearm fitted with a flintlock; esp., the old-fashioned musket of European and other armies.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Flintlock" Quotes from Famous Books

... shootin'-irons?" inquired the rancher, pointing above the fireplace. Two guns hung on the spreading deer antlers there. One was a musket Jean's father had used in the war of the rebellion and the other was a long, heavy, muzzle-loading flintlock Kentucky, rifle with which Jean ...

— To the Last Man • Zane Grey

... fringes. In the red sash which passed around his waist were thrust a hunting knife and tomahawk, while one hand clasped a cumbersome rifle, which, like all firearms of those times, was used with ramrod and flintlock. ...

— The Daughter of the Chieftain - The Story of an Indian Girl • Edward S. Ellis

... incense, and military glory; and he stepped forth from each village and hamlet as if the world were scarcely large enough for the prowess of himself and companions. Even on parade he was as stiff as his long-barrelled flintlock, looking as if England could hope for no quarter at his hands; yet he permitted no admiring glances from bright eyes to escape him. He had not traversed half the distance between his native hamlet and Boston ...

— Taken Alive • E. P. Roe

... to dig for something. Once when I was a little girl, Uncle Nat was digging in our garden and he found an old rusty cannon ball and a piece of a flintlock, and ever since that I've always wanted to get a shovel and dig." Bet's voice had a longing in it that set the girls ...

— The Merriweather Girls in Quest of Treasure • Lizette M. Edholm

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