<span class="searchmatch">firelocks</span> plural of <span class="searchmatch">firelock</span>...
(General American) IPA(key): /ˈfaɪ(ə)ɹˌlɑk/ Hyphenation: fire‧lock <span class="searchmatch">firelock</span> (plural <span class="searchmatch">firelocks</span>) (historical) A form of gunlock, in which the priming is ignited...
flockier comparative form of flocky: more flocky <span class="searchmatch">firelock</span>...
Scene III, page 108: Hot ordnance split and shiver and rebound, And <span class="searchmatch">firelocks</span> fouled and flintless overstrew the ground. “overstrew”, in Webster’s Revised...
American military library: At this command, the soldiers will carry their <span class="searchmatch">firelocks</span> as they please, as prescribed in the soldier's drill, No 120, and are...
comparable) (firearms, historical) Having a small wheel fixed to the pan of <span class="searchmatch">firelocks</span> for discharging them. 1875, P. L. Jacob ·, The Arts in the Middle Ages...
(strong, genitive Luntenschlosses, plural Luntenschlösser) matchlock, <span class="searchmatch">firelock</span> Declension of Luntenschloss [neuter, strong] 1Now rare, see notes. Steinschloss...
hakebus, hagebus (modern Dutch haakbus), from hôk (“hook”) + busse (“box; <span class="searchmatch">firelock</span>”), from Old Saxon hōk + *buhsa, from Proto-Germanic *hōkaz + *buhsā. IPA(key):...
or Europeans. But what early mind—a power—could face gunpowder and the <span class="searchmatch">firelocks</span>? Hence their annihilation! Ellipsis of gunpowder tea. gunpowder chicken...
Burkhard. Also from a derivative of Proto-West Germanic *buhsā (“box, <span class="searchmatch">firelock</span>”). Busse A surname from German. buses See the etymology of the corresponding...