Flintlock - Law Dictionary Search Results

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Firelock

An old form of gunlock as the flintlock which ignites the priming by a spark perhaps originally a matchlock Hence a gun having such a lock...

A lock for a gun or pistol having a flint fixed in the hammer which on striking the steel ignites the priming...

A movable furrowed piece of steel struck by the flint to throw sparks into the pan in an early form of flintlock...

A flintlock gun See 2d Fusil...

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