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UK
/mˈætʃlɒk/
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[ US /ˈmætʃˌɫɑk/ ]
[ US /ˈmætʃˌɫɑk/ ]
NOUN
- an early style of musket; a slow-burning wick would be lowered into a hole in the breech to ignite the charge
How To Use matchlock In A Sentence
- Twelve men all equipped, having each his rest and his matchlock.
- Pikemen stood on guard with their 16 feet long weapons and musketeers cleaned their matchlock muskets ready for the later mock battles.
- The matchlock is one of the very earliest forms of firearms.
- It is not a conventional matchlock, as historians have written, but a complex and very costly arquebuse à rouet, a wheel-lock arquebus. Champlain's Dream
- They were apparently fairly well supplied with them, of either the "matchlock" or "snaphance The Mayflower and Her Log; July 15, 1620-May 6, 1621 — Complete
- Muskets spanned the transition from matchlock, through wheel lock and flintlock, to percussion.
- Early musketeers, of the late 16th and early 17th century, were noted not only for the flamboyance of their dress but also as élite foot soldiers, armed with the latest in death-dealing technology, the matchlock.
- The Malay weapons consist of the celebrated kris, with its flame-shaped wavy blade; the sword, regarded, however, more as an ornament; the parang, which is both knife and weapon; the steel-headed spear, which cost us so many lives in the Perak war; matchlocks, blunderbusses, and lelahs, long heavy brass guns used for the defense of the stockades behind which the Malays usually fight. The Golden Chersonese and the way thither
- When gunpowder warfare became general by the seventeenth century, it introduced to the battlefield men carrying explosives on their belts, holding dangerous firearms and, in the early matchlock days, smoldering cords. George Washington’s First War
- The Malay weapons consist of the celebrated kris, with its flame-shaped wavy blade; the sword, regarded, however, more as an ornament; the parang, which is both knife and weapon; the steel-headed spear, which cost us so many lives in the Pêrak war; matchlocks, blunderbusses, and lelahs, long heavy brass guns used for the defence of the stockades behind which the Malays usually fight. The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither
