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flintlock

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Noun
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flint=lock

CIDE DICTIONARY

flintlockn. 
  •  A lock for a gun or pistol, having a flint fixed in the hammer, which on striking the steel ignites the priming.  [1913 Webster]
  •  A hand firearm fitted with a flintlock; esp., the old-fashioned musket of European and other armies.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

flintlock, n. hist.
1 an old type of gun fired by a spark from a flint.
2 the lock producing such a spark.


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