Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A light flintlock musket.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Capable of being melted or rendered fluid by heat.
  • Running or flowing, as a liquid.
  • noun In her.: A bearing differing from the lozenge in being longer in proportion to its breadth, and named from its shape, which resembles that of a spindle.
  • noun A representation of a spindle covered with yarn.
  • noun A flint-lock musket: originally so called in English, to distinguish it from the matchlock previously in use, from the French name of the piece of steel against which the flint strikes fire.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective rare Capable of being melted or rendered fluid by heat; fusible.
  • adjective rare Running or flowing, as a liquid.
  • adjective obsolete Formed by melting and pouring into a mold; cast; founded.
  • noun A light kind of flintlock musket, formerly in use.
  • noun (Her.) A bearing of a rhomboidal figure; -- named from its shape, which resembles that of a spindle.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun heraldry A bearing of a rhomboidal figure, resembling a spindle in shape, longer than a heraldic lozenge.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a light flintlock musket

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[French, steel in a flintlock, firearm, from Old French fuisil, steel for a tinderbox, from Vulgar Latin *focīlis (petra), fire-(stone), from Late Latin focus, fire, from Latin, hearth.]

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See fusee.

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  • a flintlock musket or capable OR capable of flowing OR a shape that resembles a spindle

    February 8, 2013