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- Flintlock - n. - A lock for a gun or pistol, having a flint fixed in the hammer, which on striking the steel ignites the priming.
- Flintlock - n. - A hand firearm fitted with a flintlock; esp., the old-fashioned musket of European and other armies.
- Hammer - n. - That part of a gunlock which strikes the percussion cap, or firing pin; the cock; formerly, however, a piece of steel covering the pan of a flintlock musket and struck by the flint of the cock to ignite the priming.
- Pan - n. - The part of a flintlock which holds the priming.
- Fusil - n. - A light kind of flintlock musket, formerly in use.
- Fusee - n. - A flintlock gun. See 2d Fusil.