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matchlock

DEFINITIONS OF: matchlock

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n an early style of musket; a slow-burning wick would be lowered into a hole in the breech to ignite the charge

Type of:
musket
a muzzle-loading shoulder gun with a long barrel; formerly used by infantrymen
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