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Hammer :: Hammer (n.) That part of a gunlock which strikes the percussion cap, or firing pin; the cock; formerly, however, a piece of steel covering the pan of a flintlock musket and struck by the flint of the cock to ignite the priming..

Lock :: Lock (n.) That part or apparatus of a firearm by which the charge is exploded; as, a matchlock, flintlock, percussion lock, etc..

Flint :: Flint (n.) A massive, somewhat impure variety of quartz, in color usually of a gray to brown or nearly black, breaking with a conchoidal fracture and sharp edge. It is very hard, and strikes fire with steel..

Flinty :: Flinty (superl.) Consisting of, composed of, abounding in, or resembling, flint; as, a flinty rock; flinty ground; a flinty heart..

Skinflint :: Skinflint (n.) A penurious person; a miser; a niggard.

Flint-hearted :: Flint-hearted (a.) Hard-hearted.

Pelter :: Pelter (n.) A pinchpenny; a mean, sordid person; a miser; a skinflint..

Calyon :: Calyon (n.) Flint or pebble stone, used in building walls, etc..

Flintwood :: Flintwood (n.) An Australian name for the very hard wood of the Eucalyptus piluralis.

Cherty :: Cherty (a.) Like chert; containing chert; flinty.

Firestone :: Firestone (n.) Iron pyrites, formerly used for striking fire; also, a flint..

Pan :: Pan (n.) The part of a flintlock which holds the priming.

Flintware :: Flintware (n.) A superior kind of earthenware into whose composition flint enters largely.

Frizel :: Frizel (a.) A movable furrowed piece of steel struck by the flint, to throw sparks into the pan, in an early form of flintlock..

Flintlock :: Flintlock (n.) A lock for a gun or pistol, having a flint fixed in the hammer, which on striking the steel ignites the priming..

Buhrstone :: Buhrstone (n.) A cellular, flinty rock, used for mill stones..

Musket :: Musket (n.) A species of firearm formerly carried by the infantry of an army. It was originally fired by means of a match, or matchlock, for which several mechanical appliances (including the flintlock, and finally the percussion lock) were successively substituted. This arm has been generally superseded by the rifle..

Firelock :: Firelock (n.) An old form of gunlock, as the flintlock, which ignites the priming by a spark; perhaps originally, a matchlock. Hence, a gun having such a lock..

Litharge :: Litharge (n.) Lead monoxide; a yellowish red substance, obtained as an amorphous powder, or crystallized in fine scales, by heating lead moderately in a current of air or by calcining lead nitrate or carbonate. It is used in making flint glass, in glazing earthenware, in making red lead minium, etc. Called also massicot..

Sycoceric :: Sycite (n.) A nodule of flint, or a pebble, which resembles a fig..

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