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Word Meanings - FLINTLOCK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A lock for a gun or pistol, having a flint fixed in the hammer, which on stricking the steel ignites the priming. 2. A hand firearm fitted with a flintlock; esp., the old-fashioned musket of European and other armies.

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  • STEELING
    The process of pointing, edging, or overlaying with steel; specifically, acierage. See Steel, v.
  • HAVENED
    Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
  • PRIMORDIALLY
    At the beginning; under the first order of things; originally.
  • HAMMER LOCK
    A hold in which an arm of one contestant is held twisted and bent behind his back by his opponent.
  • STEELHEAD
    A North Pacific salmon found from Northern California to Siberia; -- called also hardhead, and preesil.
  • HAVENER
    A harbor master.
  • PRIMO
    First; chief.
  • FIREARM
    A gun, pistol, or any weapon from a shot is discharged by the force of an explosive substance, as gunpowder.
  • STEELINESS
    The quality of being steely.
  • PRIMOGENITURESHIP
    The state or privileges of the firstborn. Burke.
  • OTHERGUISE; OTHERGUESS
    Of another kind or sort; in another way. "Otherguess arguments." Berkeley.
  • PRIMITIVENESS
    The quality or state of being primitive; conformity to primitive style or practice.
  • PRIMEVALLY
    In a primeval manner; in or from the earliest times; originally. Darwin.
  • FLINTWOOD
    An Australian name for the very hard wood of the Eucalyptus piluralis.
  • PRIMOGENITOR
    The first ancestor; a forefather.
  • FASHION-MONGERING
    Behaving like a fashion-monger. Shak.
  • FASHIONED
    Having a certain style or fashion; as old-fashioned; new- fashioned.
  • FASHION-MONGER
    One who studies the fashions; a fop; a dandy. Marston.
  • PRIMOGENIAL
    First born, made, or generated; original; primary; elemental; as, primogenial light. Glanvill.
  • HAMMERER
    One who works with a hammer.
  • NOTOTHERIUM
    An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia.
  • CARBON STEEL
    Steel deriving its qualities from carbon chiefly, without the presence of other alloying elements; --opposed to alloy steel.
  • UNSTEEL
    To disarm; to soften. Richardson.
  • REFIX
    To fix again or anew; to establish anew. Fuller.
  • ISOGEOTHERMAL; ISOGEOTHERMIC
    Pertaining to, having the nature of, or marking, isogeotherms; as, an isogeothermal line or surface; as isogeothermal chart. -- n.
  • SMOTHER
    Etym: 1. To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child. 2. To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick
  • AFFIX
    figere to fasten: cf. OE. affichen, F. afficher, ultimately fr. L. 1. To subjoin, annex, or add at the close or end; to append to; to fix to any part of; as, to affix a syllable to a word; to affix a seal to an instrument; to affix one's name to
  • ISOTHEROMBROSE
    A line connecting or marking points on the earth's surface, which have the same mean summer rainfall.
  • EPISTOLET
    A little epistle. Lamb.
  • DEFIX
    To fix; to fasten; to establish. "To defix their princely seat . . . in that extreme province." Hakluyt.
  • LOW STEEL
    See LOW

 

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