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- Gunlock - n. - The lock of a gun, for producing the discharge. See Lock.
- Mainspring - n. - The principal or most important spring in a piece of mechanism, especially the moving spring of a watch or clock or the spring in a gunlock which impels the hammer. Hence: The chief or most powerful motive; the efficient cause of action.
- Sear - n. - The catch in a gunlock by which the hammer is held cocked or half cocked.
- Matchlock - n. - An old form of gunlock containing a match for firing the priming; hence, a musket fired by means of a match.
- 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.