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A hand firearm fitted with a flintlock; esp., the old-fashioned musket of European and other armies.

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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.

ods of dimness. Knight. -- Flash in the pan, the flashing of the priming in the pan of a flintlock musket without discharging the piece; hence, sudden, spasmodic effort that accomplishes nothing.

wed piece of steel struck by the flint, to throw sparks into the pan, in an early form of flintlock. Knight.

A flintlock gun. See 2d Fusil. [Obs.]

A light kind of flintlock musket, formerly in use.

n cap, or firing pin; the cock; formerly, however, a piece of steel covering the pan of a flintlock musket and struck by the flint of the cock to ignite the priming.

That part or apparatus of a firearm by which the charge is exploded; as, a matchlock, flintlock, percussion lock, etc.

by means of a match, or matchlock, for which several mechanical appliances (including the flintlock, and finally the percussion lock) were successively substituted. This arm has been generally superseded by the rifle.

The part of a flintlock which holds the priming.