snaphaunce

• Reaching the firelock from the corner I found it to be furnished with a snaphaunce or flintlock, and though very rusty, methought cleaned and oiled it might make me a very good weapon had I but powder and shot for it. —  Black Bartlemy's Treasure
• Down he gets from the saddle and me by the collar, and claps a great snaphaunce under my nose. —  Black Bartlemy's Treasure
• There were also matchlocks, snaphaunce pieces, pistols, swords and hangers (cutlasses). —  Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century
• This is a genuine snaphaunce, not to be confused with the Spanish or Moorish —  A Catalogue of Early Pennsylvania and Other Firearms and Edged Weapons at "Restless Oaks"
• By 1625, however, the picture had changed, for the wheel-lock, snaphaunce, and "doglock," were being used in large numbers, and the matchlock had become obsolete. —  New Discoveries at Jamestown Site of the First Successful English Settlement in America

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