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MATCHLOCK
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An early style of musket; a slow-burning wick would be lowered into a hole in the breech to ignite the charge
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("matchlock" is a kind of...):
musket (a muzzle-loading shoulder gun with a long barrel; formerly used by infantrymen)
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