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Meanings of flintlock in English

Russian
кремнёвое оружие
Portuguese
pederneira
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Firearm with flint-striking ignition.

Related terms
кремнёвое оружие

A muzzle loader that had a flintlock type of gunlock.

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Examples for "firelock"
Examples for "firelock"
1
So I shouldered my firelock and went and offered my services.
The Yankee Tea-party; Or, Boston in 1773
2
Defensioner, you will give me your weapons, both firelock and sabre.
The Young Carpenters of Freiberg / A Tale of the Thirty Years' W...
3
But I haven't got my new-flinted firelock, and that there man must live.
Life's Little Ironies / A set of tales with some colloquial sket...
4
Upon which, I snatched up firelock that belonged to a dead man, d-me!
The Adventures of Roderick Random
5
Both now pulled at the firelock, with all their strength.
Hardscrabble; or, the fall of Chicago: a tale of Indian warfare
Usage of flintlock in English
1
No, sir; me and the old flintlock will live and die together.
The Hoosier Schoolmaster: A Story of Backwoods Life in Indiana
2
Silver glittered about the flintlock and the hardwood stock of his gun.
The Rescue: A Romance of the Shallows
3
A perfect and useless model of a flintlock rifle rendered in glass.
Perdido Street Station
4
If not he knows nothing of flintlock guns, and I must explain.
The Big Brother: A Story of Indian War
5
The King, who used a flintlock gun, was a very good marksman.
The Duchess of Berry and the Court of Charles X
6
I picked up a lovely little rifled flintlock pistol, once, Rand said.
Murder in the Gunroom
7
He reached to his belt and-drew from it a long-barrelled flintlock pistol.
The Anubis Gates
8
Isaac felt for his flintlock and the unfamiliar knife at his belt.
Perdido Street Station
9
And that I shall have a turn at the flintlock, if I'm careful.
The heretic's daughter: a novel
10
The powder-horn and the flintlock rifle are the only volunteer articles.
McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 2, January, 1896
11
He held open one side of his jacket, displaying two enormous flintlock pistols.
Perdido Street Station
12
The parted edges disclosed also the butts of two flintlock pistols.
The Rescue: A Romance of the Shallows
13
Near by he discovered the rapidly disintegrating remnants of an old-time flintlock musket.
As It Was in the Beginning
14
Here the deserter comes to sell his uniform and his ricketty old flintlock.
Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern
15
Then one of them raised a flintlock rifle carefully, aiming it at Yagharek.
Perdido Street Station
16
Isaac's voice was drowned by Shadrach's wail and the explosion from his flintlock.
Perdido Street Station
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Translations for flintlock
Portuguese
pederneira
Flintlock through the time
Flintlock across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common