Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Matchlock

Matchlock , noun

An old form of gunlock containing a match for firing the priming; hence, a musket fired by means of a match.

Text from the public-domain GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English, derived from Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913). Definitions marked with were added by later GCIDE contributors and are not in the original 1913 edition.

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