flintlock

flintlock has 4 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 9.

Definitions

• n.. A lock for a gun or pistol, having a flint fixed in the hammer, which on striking the steel ignites the priming.
• n.. A hand firearm fitted with a flintlock; esp., the old-fashioned musket of European and other armies.
• n.. an obsolete gunlock that has flint embedded in the hammer; the flint makes a spark that ignites the charge
• n.. a muzzle loader that had a flintlock type of gunlock