matchlock
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
matchlock (plural matchlocks)
- Early type of firearm, using a smoldering piece of cord to fire the powder in the firing pan.
- 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘Dray Wara Yow Dee’, Black and White, Folio Society 2004, vol. 1, p. 372:
- I crept silently up the hill-road, but the fuse of my matchlock was wetted with the rain, and I could not slay Daoud Shah from afar.
- 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘Dray Wara Yow Dee’, Black and White, Folio Society 2004, vol. 1, p. 372:
- The gunlock used in such a weapon, having a slow smouldering match, see: slow match.
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