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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. An obsolete gunlock in which a flint fixed in the hammer produces a spark that ignites the charge.
  2. n. A firearm having this type of gunlock. Also called firelock.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A gun-lock in which fire is produced by a flint striking the hammer, and igniting the priming in a receptacle called the pan. The match-lock was superseded by the flint-lock, which is now superseded by the percussion-lock.
  2. n. A gun, especially a musket, having a flint-lock.

Wiktionary

  1. n. An early type of firearm, using a spring-loaded flint to strike sparks into the firing pan.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A lock for a gun or pistol, having a flint fixed in the hammer, which on striking the steel ignites the priming.
  2. n. A hand firearm fitted with a flintlock; esp., the old-fashioned musket of European and other armies.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. an obsolete gunlock that has flint embedded in the hammer; the flint makes a spark that ignites the charge
  2. n. a muzzle loader that had a flintlock type of gunlock

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