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firelock

[ UK /fˈa‍ɪ‍əlɒk/ ]
NOUN
  1. a muzzle loader that had a flintlock type of gunlock

How To Use firelock In A Sentence

  • The flintlock reigned supreme as a system throughout the 18th century and flintlock muskets, also referred to as ‘firelocks ', were the infantry's principal weapons in most European nations.
  • Even Morgan partook of the change, and I well recall how he came to me just before he landed, in a kind of grenadier uniform, with sword and musket and belts, drawing himself up very stiff and proud-looking as he let down the butt-end of his firelock with a loud bang upon the deck. Mass' George A Boy's Adventures in the Old Savannah
  • There was not a man of the 150 attempting to represent two service squadrons who had not at some period balanced his life against his proficiency with the rifle, and who had not realised that on service his firelock was the soldier's best and staunchest friend. On the Heels of De Wet
  • I had sprung out of my hammock, and had seized my firelock, and was standing on the ground, saying the words myself. The Perils of Certain English Prisoners
  • Recover and cock, as before directed for the center rank, and, as the firelock is brought to the recover, step briskly to the right: a full pace, at the same time placing the left heel about six inches before the point of the right foot.
  • O that I had got but my new - flinted firelock, that there man should die! Life's Little Ironies
  • When the New Hampshire troops arrived, Pepperrell found it necessary that they all be ‘Taught How to Use the firelock.’
  • The Militia Act of 1792, signed by George (The Communist) Washington, mandated (unfunded) that nearly every “free able-bodied white male citizen” between 18 and 45 “provide himself with a good musket or firelock, a sufficient bayonet and belt, two spare flints, and a knapsack, a pouch with a box therein to contain not less than twenty-four cartridges, …” Think Progress » Romney Struggles To Distance RomneyCare From ObamaCare: Ours Was ‘Bipartisan’
  • I presented him in return with two vests of stammel cloth, two firelocks, two bottles of brandy, and a knife. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 09 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time
  • But I haven't got my new - flinted firelock, and that there man must live. Life's Little Ironies
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