flintlock
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How to use flintlock in a sentence
In 1990, Predator 2 set a Predator upon Los Angeles, and introduced more of the creature’s mythology—including a detail that it possesses an 18th Century flintlock pistol as a trophy.
The most welcome capture was the arms, for many of his men were armed with flintlock muskets.
A Little Union Scout | Joel Chandler HarrisThey were armed defensively with a shield, and offensively with a curved sword, and a flintlock musket slung at the saddle-bow.
Michael Strogoff | Jules VerneThe boy followed, and then the master took his seat in the stern, with his flintlock fowling piece within reach.
Duffels | Edward Egglestonflintlock rifles were the usual arm, though here and there a man had a Cramer.
Some genius in the machine shop altered a matchlock musket to flintlock and showed the local gunsmiths how to do it.
Space Viking | Henry Beam Piper
British Dictionary definitions for flintlock
/ (ˈflɪntˌlɒk) /
an obsolete gunlock in which the charge is ignited by a spark produced by a flint in the hammer
a firearm having such a lock
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