How To Use Matchlock In A Sentence
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Twelve men all equipped, having each his rest and his matchlock.
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Pikemen stood on guard with their 16 feet long weapons and musketeers cleaned their matchlock muskets ready for the later mock battles.
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The matchlock is one of the very earliest forms of firearms.
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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
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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
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Muskets spanned the transition from matchlock, through wheel lock and flintlock, to percussion.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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His followers had matchlocks, spears, swords, bows and arrows.
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The cavalcade was a weird and picturesque sight, the riders with their many-colored dresses, their matchlocks with red flags, their jewelled swords, their banners with long ribbons of all colors flying in the wind -- all galloping furiously, shouting, yelling, and hissing, amid a deafening din of thousands of horse-bells.
An Explorer's Adventures in Tibet
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The firing of a matchlock was to be our signal that my men held the upper end of the pass, and were descending on our enemies.
Tales of Destiny
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The cavalcade was a weird and picturesque sight, the riders with their many-coloured dresses, their matchlocks with red flags, their jewelled swords, their banners with long ribbons of all colours flying in the wind; all galloping furiously, shouting, yelling and hissing, amidst a deafening din of thousands of horse-bells.
In the Forbidden Land
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The marine looked at him uncertainly, then grinned through his curling blond beard, leaned forward over his matchlock, and blew.
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A bearded ruffian, whose only costume was a flannel shirt and a pair of seedy check trousers, but whose eye was as keen as a hawk's, and whose shining "matchlock" had seventeen notches [24] along its stock, caught the subaltern's query.
On the Heels of De Wet
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A simple lesson, but one a man might forget in a pinch: Their rifles are matchlocks.
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The infantry of early modern Europe combined the fire of gunpowder weapons - first the arquebus and then the matchlock musket - and the shock of cold steel.
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I believe, the mortification he felt at the Arabs having licked us gave him more pain than the damage done to his legs by the ball of the matchlock, which had taken him athwartship through the fleshy part of his understandings -- breaking no bones, but crippling him all the same.
Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy
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The discovery of gun powder by the Chinese lead to the development of the matchlock musket.
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I am also familiar with the wheellock, Snaphaunce (early flint design with a seperate frizzen) and the matchlock.
Knight Rifles Goes Under
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The arquebus was a matchlock weapon that used a trigger for the first and was found to be effective.
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Firing had ceased; to load a matchlock was a long affair, and though the attackers might have divided and come forward in relays with loaded weapons, they would have run the risk of hitting their own friends.
In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India
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The flintlock and percussion are themselves evolutions of the wheellock and matchlock.
How many of you ladies and gents enjoy hunting with traditional blackpowder firearms?
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His followers had matchlocks, spears, swords, bows and arrows.
