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Matchlock   /mˈætʃlˌɑk/   Listen
Matchlock

noun
1.
An early style of musket; a slow-burning wick would be lowered into a hole in the breech to ignite the charge.





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"Matchlock" Quotes from Famous Books



... or was pressed into the same service. Our regular garrison consisted of only two hundred European troops, to which were added some Topasses, a mixed breed of Indians and Portuguese, very suitable to be used as mercenaries, and about a thousand of the black natives armed as buxerries, or matchlock men. Out of regard to my having been the first to volunteer and to my former service on board a man-of-war, I was presently appointed a sergeant, and put in charge of a party of twelve men, assigned to the defence of the rope-walk which ...
— Athelstane Ford • Allen Upward


Words linked to "Matchlock" :   musket


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