A lock for a gun or pistol, having a flint fixed in the hammer, which on striking the steel ignites the priming.
A hand firearm fitted with a flintlock; esp., the old-fashioned musket of European and other armies.
(n.) A firing mechanism used primarily on muzzleloaders, using the shower of sparks created when a piece of flint strikes a steel frizzen to ignite a priming charge, which in turn ignites the main powder charge.
A muzzle loading firearm fired by means of a piece of flint held in the hammer jaws, which, by releasing the trigger strikes against a steel frizzen, causing incandescent particles of steel scraped from the frizzen to fall into the pan, igniting the powder and causing it to flash through the touch hole setting off the main charge.
a muzzle loader having a flintlock type of gunlock
a gunlock that has flint embedded in the hammer; the flint makes a spark that ignites the charge
An ignition system which consisted of a flint being struck against steel to produce a spark and light the gunpowder
Type of ignition mechanism on a firearm used from the early 17thC until the early 19thC. Sparks were generated by friction between a piece of flint and a steel plate, the frizzen. Below the frizzen is a pan set next to a touch-hole in the breech. The sparks ignited powder in the pan and, via the touch-hole, fired the main charge in the breech.
Type of gun - muzzle-loader. Same type of gun that the mountain men used to use.
The type of action of early firearms where a piece of flint stone was held by the cock and, when the trigger was pulled, the cock/flint struck the steel "frizzen" causing a shower of sparks to ignite fine gun powder in a small pan next to the "touch hole" in the barrel. The flash of the powder in the pan traveled through the touch hole and ignited the powder charge in the base of the barrel beneath the "ball" or bullet.
A muzzle loading firearm with its powder charge ignited by a flint striking a metal surface (the frizzen) to produce sparks which ignite fine priming powder, which in turn sets off the main charge.
Flintlock is the general term for any firearm based on the flintlock mechanism. Introduced about 1630, the flintlock rapidly replaced earlier firearm-ignition technologies, such as the matchlock and wheellock mechanisms. It continued to be in common use for over two centuries, replaced by percussion cap and, later, cartridge-based systems in the early-to-mid 19th century.