Word Meanings - FIRELOCK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

• Sparkled
  of Sparkle
• WHICHEVERWHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one (of two or more) which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• Haversian
  Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century.
• Prima donna
  The first or chief female singer in an opera.
• Primely
  At first; primarily.
• Primitias
  of Primitia
• Primordialism
  Devotion to, or persistence in, conditions of the primordial state.
• Sparkling
  of Sparkle
• Havildar
  In the British Indian armies, a noncommissioned officer of native soldiers, corresponding to a sergeant.
• Prima facie
  At first view; on the first appearance.
• Primeness
  The quality or state of being first.
• Primitia
  The first fruit; the first year's whole profit of an ecclesiastical preferment.
• Primordially
  At the beginning; under the first order of things; originally.
• Sparkler
  One who scatters; esp., one who scatters money; an improvident person.
• Flintlock
  A lock for a gun or pistol, having a flint fixed in the hammer, which on striking the steel ignites the priming.
• Primage
  A charge in addition to the freight; originally, a gratuity to the captain for his particular care of the goods (sometimes called hat money), but now belonging to the owners or freighters of the vessel, unless by special agreement the whole or par
• Primer
  One who, or that which, primes
• Primitial
  Being of the first production; primitive; original.
• Primordian
  A name given to several kinds of plums; as, red primordian, amber primordian, etc.

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