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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