Crossword clues for gunlock
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gunlock \Gun"lock`\, n. The mechanism of a gun for producing the discharge. See Lock.
Wiktionary
n. A mechanism fitted to a cannon that fires it when a cord is pulled.
WordNet
n. the action that ignites the charge in a firearm [syn: firing mechanism]
Usage examples of "gunlock".
Some daggers, a dozen gunlocks, four good shirts of rivet-link mail, a lot of bullet-moulds.
We’ll buy the mail, the gunlocks, the sword-blades and that sort of thing ourselves.
Also a thousand ingots of brass and two hundred of lead riding on Ranthar's pack animals along with a miscellany of gunlocks, flints, powder horns and other lightweight but necessary gear.
The gunlocks fired what appeared to be water through their breechholes and into the barrels.
They trampled the spot with their horses until it looked much like the road again and the smoking gunlocks and sabreblades and girthrings were dragged from the ashes of the fire and carried away and buried in a separate place and the riderless horses hazed off into the desert and in the evening the wind carried away the ashes and the wind blew in the night and fanned the last smoldering billets and drove forth the last fragile race of sparks fugitive as flintstrikings in the unanimous dark of the world.
The sound had been the cocking of gunlocks as an entire regiment of heretics appeared out of the very ground, and he looked straight into the muzzles of their bayoneted weapons.