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flint-lock
ˈflint-lock [See lock.] a. A gun-lock in which a flint, screwed to the cock, is struck against the hammer and produces sparks which ignite the priming in the flash-pan. Also attrib., as flint-lock gun, flint-lock musket. b. A gun fitted with this lock.1683 Sir J. Turner Pallas Armata 176 It were the... Oxford English Dictionary
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Jean Lepage
He was the inventor of fulminate percussion systems for firearms, which superseded the flint-lock mechanism and opened the way to modern firearms. The new method permitted the abandonment of flint-lock firing mechanisms and opened the way to modern firing methods. wikipedia.org
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flint
▪ I. flint, n. (flɪnt) Forms: 1–2 flint, 3–4 south. vlint, -ynt, (4 flent, 5 flynd), 4–6 flynt(e, 3– flint. [OE. flint str. masc. = MDu. vlint, related to OHG. flins (MHG. vlins, mod.Ger. dial. flins), Da. flint str. masc., Sw. flinta wk. fem.; usually regarded as cogn. with Gr. πλίνθος tile.] I. 1.... Oxford English Dictionary
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Robert Napier Raikes
Apparently his men carried the old flint-lock musket, of which Wellington's maxim was "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes.". wikipedia.org
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firelock
ˈfirelock [See lock n.] 1. A gun-lock in which sparks were produced (either by friction or percussion) to ignite the priming. The name was at first given to the wheel-lock; in the 17th cent. it became transferred to the flint-lock.1547 Inventory in Meyrick Antient Armour III. 15 One chamber pece bla... Oxford English Dictionary
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Miquelet lock
most of Spain, it was traditionally called the llave de rastrillo ("rake lock"), and in Catalonia and Valencia it was called the pany de pedrenyal ("flint-lock wikipedia.org
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wheel-lock
ˈwheel-lock [f. wheel n. + lock n.2] 1. A form of gun-lock in which the powder was fired by the friction of a small wheel (wound up with a spring) against a piece of iron pyrites. Also attrib.1670 Cotton Espernon. i. iv. 181 The wheel-lock of a Pistol, ready wound up. 1677 Plot Oxfordsh. 71 These..h... Oxford English Dictionary
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Sinclair, Hamilton and Company
Arsenals in the South were only in possession of about 150,000 shoulder arms, most of which were only flint-lock muskets from the Revolutionary War era wikipedia.org
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guardless
guardless, a. (ˈgɑːdlɪs) [f. guard n. + -less.] 1. Having no guard; undefended, unprotected; destitute of safeguards.c 1611 Chapman Iliad v. 146 His flocks left guardless. 1621 Lady M. Wroth Urania 67 Fortune and your power, hath left me guardlesse. 1692 South Serm. (1697) I. 324 A rich Land, guardl... Oxford English Dictionary
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Purnananda Burhagohain
The troops were given a uniform and armed with flint-lock guns, purchased in Calcutta. wikipedia.org
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Brown Bess
Brown Bess The name familiarly given in the British Army to the old flint-lock musket. (Brown Musket was in earlier use: both names existed long before the process of ‘browning’ the barrel (introduced in 1808), and apparently referred to the brown walnut stock.)[1708 S. Centlivre Busie Body i. i 13 ... Oxford English Dictionary
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Samuel Guthrie (physician)
powder, called the "percussion pill" and the punch lock for it, which together replaced the flash-in-the-pan type of powder and made the old-fashioned flint-lock wikipedia.org
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snaphaunce
snaphance, snaphaunce Now Hist. (ˈsnæphɑːns, -æ-) Forms: α. 6–7 snaphanse, 6–7, 9 snaphance (6 snapp-), 7 snaphanch; 6–7, 9 snap-hance; 7 snap hance, hans. β. 6–7 snap-haunse, 6–7, 9 snaphaunce; 7 snap-haunce, 7, 9 -haunch; 6 snap haunce. [Of Continental origin, repr. Du. and Flem. snaphaan (in Kili... Oxford English Dictionary
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Waynesburg, Pennsylvania
According to the Living Places website, Slater purchased the land from a Native American for a two-year-old heifer and a flint-lock rifle. wikipedia.org
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George A. Porterfield
Lee that companies were being organized in Clarksburg, Pruntytown, Philippi, Weston, and Fairmont, but that only two were armed, and one had only "old flint-lock wikipedia.org
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