What is "snaphaunce"

Usage examples of "snaphaunce".

Pete picked out at random a pair of the snaphaunce lock horse pistols and rapidly charged them with smooth, practiced motions of his stained, work-roughened hands.

Blade was also an expert on such arcana as wheel locks, miquelets, the snaphaunce, and right through to such weapons as the M-16.

It might well also have had sights and a more advanced form of lock, up to the snaphaunce, an early form of snapping flintlock, or a wheel lock, a system much like the spark wheel on a modern cigarette lighter.

Rifles of 1632 might have had matchlocks, but were more likely to have a mechanical lock such as the snaphaunce or wheel lock.

Some were still using matchlocks, but mechanical locks like the wheel lock and snapping locks like the snaphaunce were becoming common.

It did require quality flints, which were already being cut for fire starting and for two other more primitive types of striking lock, the Dutch snaphaunce locks and the Spanish miquelet locks.

One of his clubs was the Medieval Club-on fine summer afternoons in Kent they got together and had at each other with broadsword, mace, and lance-and Blade was also an expert on such arcana as wheel locks, miquelets, the snaphaunce, and right through to such weapons as the M 16.