Word Meanings - FLINTLOCK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

• Steeler
  One who points, edges, or covers with steel.
• Flint-hearted
  Hard-hearted.
• HAMMERDRESSED
  Having the surface roughly shaped or faced with the stonecutter's hammer; -- said of building stone.
• Hammerkop
  A bird of the Heron family; the umber.
• Haversian
  Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century.
• Priming
  of Prime
• Primitiae
  of Primitia
• Primordial
  First in order; primary; original; of earliest origin; as, primordial condition.
• Steelhead
  A North Pacific salmon (Salmo Gairdneri) found from Northern California to Siberia; -- called also hardhead, and preesil.
• Flintiness
  The state or quality of being flinty; hardness; cruelty.
• HAMMERHARDEN
  To harden, as a metal, by hammering it in the cold state.
• Hammer-less
  Without a visible hammer; -- said of a gun having a cock or striker concealed from sight, and out of the way of an accidental touch.
• Havildar
  In the British Indian armies, a noncommissioned officer of native soldiers, corresponding to a sergeant.
• 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.
• Steeliness
  The quality of being steely.

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