What is "flintlocks"

Usage examples of "flintlocks".

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.

Clem and Bob triggered their flintlocks, billowing clouds of smoke masking the men, but two coldhearts flew backward as the .