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Flintlock

Flintlock \Flint"lock`\, n.

  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.

Wiktionary
flintlock

n. An early type of firearm, using a spring-loaded flint to strike sparks into the firing pan.

WordNet
flintlock
  1. n. a muzzle loader having a flintlock type of gunlock [syn: firelock]

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

Wikipedia
Flintlock

Flintlock is a general term for any firearm that uses a flint striking ignition mechanism. The term may also apply to a particular form of the mechanism itself, also known as the true flintlock, that was introduced in the early 17th century, and rapidly replaced earlier firearm-ignition technologies, such as the matchlock, the wheellock, and the earlier flintlock mechanisms.

The true flintlock continued to be in common use for over two centuries, replaced by percussion cap and, later, the cartridge-based systems in the early-to-mid 19th century. Although long superseded by modern firearms, flintlock weapons enjoy continuing popularity with black-powder shooting enthusiasts.

Flintlock (musical group)

Flintlock were a 1970s pop group from Essex, England. Its members were Derek Pascoe ( vocals/ saxophone), Mike Holoway ( drums/ percussion), Jamie Stone ( bass/ vocals), John Summerton ( guitar/ vocals) and Bill Rice ( keyboards).

Flintlock (disambiguation)

A flintlock is a kind of a firearm.

Flintlock may also refer to:

  • Flintlock, a Joint Combined Exchange Training programme
  • Flintlock (musical group), a 1970s pop group
  • Flintlock mechanism, a firing mechanism

Usage examples of "flintlock".

The Hall was designed in the 1830s and manufactured at first as a flintlock and later as a caplock rifle.

Wessons, Mausers, Webleys, Lugers, Winchesters, Deringers and Derringers, Adams and Rugers, flintlocks and percussion cap blasters, muskets, rifles and carbines.

She was careful to keep her head out of the water, for she had a small flintlock pistol wrapped up in her turban, and she wanted to keep the flashpan dry.

Then, to the surprise of the watchers, each man, keeping one leg wrapped about the saddletree, leaned far down on the right flank of his galloping horse, leaned under the neck and fired a salute from an old flintlock rifle.

He also had a brace of smoothbore flintlock pistols at his belt, looking the same bore as the Hall musket.

Krak and his men had all been issued brand-new flintlocks with longer barrels and a tighter rifling twist, and they had now trained for months alongside the Thuringian Rifles.

Cannons roared as Firebirds streaked across the sky, flintlocks discharging continuously.

Most were muzzleloading flintlocks, but a few were predark revolvers, and one tall bald man with small ears carried a Thompson machine gun.

Doc flicked a match into life on the wall and the tiny flame revealed an arsenal of Masters: flintlocks, revolvers, longblasters, shotguns, pepperboxes and a dozen huge barrels of black powder.

Dressing quickly, they searched the bedroom and found a stash of flintlocks and pouches of black powder in a bottom drawer of the mahogany armoire.

Hummers raked the defenders with machine guns, the pirates replying with flintlocks, cannons and crossbows.

Tongamorlena quickly reloaded, the pirates struck back with flintlocks and crossbows, the wounded reloading for the healthy.

As the rest of the sec men started returning fire with their flintlocks, Krysty rolled a gren under the armored wag.

As the buccaneers shouted and fired their flintlocks on board the Sidonia, Hunter reached a spot on the mast about nine meters above the deck.

He ushered them in, and Hester could not help glancing around the perfectly proportioned hallway with its black-and-white flagged floor leading to a magnificent staircase, and the walls hung with ancient armor, decorated swords, and flintlocks, stocks inlaid with gold wire and mother-of-pearl.