Associations to the word «Matchlock»
Wiktionary
MATCHLOCK, noun. Early type of firearm, using a smoldering piece of cord to fire the powder in the firing pan.
MATCHLOCK, noun. The gunlock used in such a weapon, having a slow smouldering match, see: slow match.
Dictionary definition
MATCHLOCK, noun. An early style of musket; a slow-burning wick would be lowered into a hole in the breech to ignite the charge.
Wise words
The most important things are the hardest things to say.
They are the things you get ashamed of because words
diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem
timeless when they are in your head to no more than living
size when they are brought out.