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Matchlock   /mˈætʃlˌɑk/   Listen
Matchlock

noun
1.
An early style of musket; a slow-burning wick would be lowered into a hole in the breech to ignite the charge.





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"Matchlock" Quotes from Famous Books



... a while we were lucky enough to recover our right line of march. The same day we fell in with a sheik, the head of a family that actually dwells at no great distance 5 from this part of the desert during nine months of the year. The man carried a matchlock, and of this he was inordinately proud, on account of the supposed novelty and ingenuity of the contrivance. We stopped, and sat down and rested awhile, for the sake ...
— Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year • E.C. Hartwell
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Words linked to "Matchlock" :   musket


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