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.
- 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. - 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 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. - Sparkling
of Sparkle - Havildar
In the British Indian armies, a noncommissioned officer of native soldiers, corresponding to a sergeant. - 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. - 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.
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