matchlock

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Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

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

From match + lock.

Some had guns, matchlocks, and some had spears. — Southern Arabia, J. Theodore (James Theodore) Bent
Each had a matchlock slung at his back. — Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846, James Richardson
He bought pistols for himself and Zaki, and a matchlock for the latter. — With Kitchener in the Soudan: A Story of Atbara and Omdurman, G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

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