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firelock

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8 lettersPronunciation /ˈfaɪəlɒk/Part of speech nounSorted cefiklorStarts with FEnds with K0 clues
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Definitions

  1. a muzzle loader that had a flintlock type of gunlock

Word origin

From fire + lock.

Used in a sentence

  • He looked round for his gun, but in place of the clean well-oiled fowing-piece, he found an old firelock lying by him, the barrel encrusted with rust, the lock falling off, and the stock worm-eaten.
  • Alfred, surprised to meet his father, whom he thought absent from home, […] stood, holding his firelock in one hand, and his hat in the other […]
  • Before we were out of the forest, however, we saw about ten peasants, some armed with firelocks [translating Feuer-rohren], others busy burying something.

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