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Definition: Firelock |
FirelockNoun1. A muzzle loader having a flintlock type of gunlock. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "firelock" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1719. (references) |
Synonym: FirelockSynonym: flintlock (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Arms | Small arms; musket, musketry, firelock, fowling piece, rifle, fusil, caliver, carbine, blunderbuss, musketoon, Brown Bess, matchlock, harquebuss, arquebus, haguebut; pistol, postolet; petronel; small bore; breach-loader, muzzle-loader; revolver, repeater; Minis rifle, Enfield rifle, Flobert rifle, Westley Richards rifle, Snider rifle, Martini-Henry rifle, Lee-Metford rifle, Lee-Enfield rifle, Mauser rifle, magazine rifle; needle gun, chassepot; wind gun, air gun; automatic gun, automatic pistol; escopet, escopette, gunflint, gun-lock; hackbut, shooter, shooting iron , six-shooter, shotgun; Uzzi, assault rifle, KalashnikoVerb: |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Firelock |
| Specialty definitions using "firelock": COCK-SURE ♦ Wooden Mare. (references) |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
firelock | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "firelock"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Bulgarian | кремъклийка. (various references) | |
Hungarian | kovás puska (flint-lock). (various references) | |
Italian | fucile (gun, rifle). (various references) | |
Manx | gunney glish. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | irelockfay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | espingarda de pederneira. (various references) | |
Romanian | flintã (matchlock, musket). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | kubura. (various references) | |
Spanish | cerrador del fuego. (various references) | |
Swedish | flintlåsgevär (flintlock), flintlås (flintlock). (various references) | |
Thai | ปืนแก๊ป. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | крем'яна рушниця. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | súng kíp (flint-lock). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "firelock": firelocks. (additional references) | |
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"Firelock" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: freilach, frileux. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: flockier. | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-f-i-k-l-o-r" | |
-1 letter: fickler, flicker. | |
-2 letters: coiler, fickle, folkie, frolic, licker, locker, recoil, relock. | |
-3 letters: ceorl, clerk, filer, fleck, flick, flier, flock, force, frock, icker, kefir, lifer, liker, ocker, oiler, oleic, oriel, relic, reoil, rifle. | |
-4 letters: ceil, cero, cire, clef, coif, coil, coir, coke, cole, core, corf, cork, feck, fice, fico, file, filo, fire, flic, floc, floe. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-f-i-k-l-o-r" | |
+1 letter: firelocks, frolicked. | |
+3 letters: factorylike, forcepslike, forelocking. | |
+5 letters: nickeliferous. | |
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