Dictionary Entry
flintlock
flintlock is a 9-letter English word with 4 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A lock for a gun or pistol, having a flint fixed in the hammer, which on striking the steel ignites the priming. Face value is 18 in Scrabble and 22 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
9 letters · Scrabble 18 · Words With Friends 22 · 4 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A lock for a gun or pistol, having a flint fixed in the hammer, which on striking the steel ignites the priming.
- 2noun
A hand firearm fitted with a flintlock; esp., the old-fashioned musket of European and other armies.
- 3noun
an obsolete gunlock that has flint embedded in the hammer; the flint makes a spark that ignites the charge
- 4noun
a muzzle loader that had a flintlock type of gunlock
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