matchlock

How To Use matchlock In A Sentence

• The firing of a matchlock was to be our signal that my men held the upper end of the pass, and were descending on our enemies. Tales of Destiny
• His followers had matchlocks, spears, swords, bows and arrows.
• The flintlock and percussion are themselves evolutions of the wheellock and matchlock. How many of you ladies and gents enjoy hunting with traditional blackpowder firearms?
• Firing had ceased; to load a matchlock was a long affair, and though the attackers might have divided and come forward in relays with loaded weapons, they would have run the risk of hitting their own friends. In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India
• The arquebus was a matchlock weapon that used a trigger for the first and was found to be effective.
• I am also familiar with the wheellock, Snaphaunce (early flint design with a seperate frizzen) and the matchlock. Knight Rifles Goes Under
• The discovery of gun powder by the Chinese lead to the development of the matchlock musket.
• I believe, the mortification he felt at the Arabs having licked us gave him more pain than the damage done to his legs by the ball of the matchlock, which had taken him athwartship through the fleshy part of his understandings -- breaking no bones, but crippling him all the same. Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy
• The infantry of early modern Europe combined the fire of gunpowder weapons - first the arquebus and then the matchlock musket - and the shock of cold steel.
• A simple lesson, but one a man might forget in a pinch: Their rifles are matchlocks.