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- noun Plural form of
frizzen .
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Examples
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In receptacles on the bench were the various parts of the flintlock itself—springs, cocks, sears, frizzens, triggers, tumblers, screws, flints—and the brass bands, tubes, flanges and supports which bound the gun together.
Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000
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In receptacles on the bench were the various parts of the flintlock itself—springs, cocks, sears, frizzens, triggers, tumblers, screws, flints—and the brass bands, tubes, flanges and supports which bound the gun together.
Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000
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Seven hundred men pulled their triggers and seven hundred flints snapped forward onto frizzens.
Sharpe's Tiger Cornwell, Bernard 1997
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Their nails bled where they had dragged at cartridges, levered stiff frizzens, and torn on flints.
Sharpe's Siege Cornwell, Bernard 1987
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