Flintlock is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for FLINTLOCK in dictionary:

NOUN:
• an old-fashioned gun with spark provided by a hammer striking a flint
• an old-fashioned type of gun fired by a spark from a flint.
• the lock on a flintlock gun.
• obsolete gun in which the powder was lit by a spark from a flint
• A lock for a gun or pistol, having a flint fixed in the hammer, which on striking the steel ignites the priming.
• A hand firearm fitted with a flintlock; esp., the old-fashioned musket of European and other armies.
• a muzzle loader that had a flintlock type of gunlock
• an obsolete gunlock that has flint embedded in the hammer; the flint makes a spark that ignites the charge
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a lock for a gun or pistol having a flint in the hammer for striking a spark to ignite the charge

Words related to FLINTLOCK

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Words that contain FLINTLOCK

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How to use FLINTLOCK in a sentence

• Brown occupied a rude couch, made from two long boxes in which flintlock guns are shipped.
• It is an old flint-lock rifle which once belonged to Daniel Boone, the famous pioneer, who opened up Kentucky for us.
• He longed to hear them roar again, and he wondered how far they would shoot, much farther, he had been told, than the largest flint-lock ever made.
• In one hand he carried a heavy flint-lock, and in the other a string of fine trout, while across his right shoulder hung a long bow and several arrows.
• The figure upon the rock-ledge rested upon a long, muzzle-loading, flint-lock rifle as he looked out over the valley.
• The pistol had the saw-handle grip of an automatic, but it was a flintlock, as were the rifles of the young men who stood so watchfully on either side of the door.
• The boy who had started to climb down off the Library halted, fired his flintlock, and began reloading it.
• Many people, perhaps, will be surprised to learn that the Mexican war was fought mainly with the antiquated flintlock muskets.
• The boys also took an axe and an old flintlock gun, for much of the way was then through forest.
• He is a modern, yet not very recent addition, the fowler, as is shown by the fact that he carries a flint-lock fowling-piece.
• Pepper Whitcomb had a horse-pistol nearly as large as himself, and Jack Harris, though he, to be sure, was a big boy, was going to have a real oldfashioned flintlock musket.
• It is not enough merely to have the right on our side, if we stick to the old flint-lock of tradition.
• It was an assemblage of negro bandits, hardly clothed, who brandished long flint-lock guns, the gun-barrels garnished with a great number of copper rings.
• After he left, uncle nailed shakes over the window, and cleaned up his old flint-lock musket, and loaded it carefully.
• Some regiments of militia, the greater part of which were armed with flint-lock muskets, and a few squadrons of irregular cavalry formed his sole command.
• An old flint-lock, on the shoulder of a man beside him, had a barrel half as long as the pole.
• The men never went forth unless armed with a big dagger-stick and a flint-lock pistol, both of which were not infrequently used with effect.
• My gun had the old flint-lock, percussion-caps being then hardly known in the colonies.
• Like all men in the backwoods, he carried a hatchet and a knife stuck in his belt, and he almost always had his old-fashioned flintlock rifle on his right shoulder.

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