(definition) by Webster 1913 Tue Dec 21 1999 at 23:40:14

Fire"lock`, 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.

 

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