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Definition: Flintlock |
FlintlockNoun1. A muzzle loader having a flintlock type of gunlock. 2. A gunlock that has flint embedded in the hammer; the flint makes a spark that ignites the charge. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "flintlock" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1869. (references) |
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A flintlock is a firearm that operates in the following manner:Although a few guns of this type are still manufactured for black powder enthusiasts, the flintlock otherwise passed out of common use around 1860, after cap and cartridge-based guns were invented. The last major use of flintlocks in the Americas occurred in the first years of the American Civil War.
- The operator loads the gun, usually from the barrel end, with black powder followed by shot or a bullet wrapped in a paper patch, all rammed down with a special rod;
- A hammer tightly holding a shaped bit of flint is cocked;
- The gun is aimed and the trigger pulled, releasing the hammer;
- The flint strikes a piece of steel or iron, producing a spark that is directed into a pan filled with powder;
- The powder ignites, and the flame passes through a small hole in the pan that leads to the firing chamber, igniting the powder there; and
- The gun discharges.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Flintlock."
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American military history records two operations called Flintlock:
Operation Flintlock was the 31 January 1944 invasion of Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands. This attack sank a large number of Japanese ships and stripped the air base at Truk of its offensive potential. With Truk neutralized, it could be bypassed, forgoing a costly invasion. Kwajalein fell on 7 February after stiff Japanese resistance. See Operation Elkton.
Operation Flintlock was a series of forty nuclear tests conducted with one exception at the Nevada Test Site. These tests followed Whetstone and were in turn followed by Latchkey.
The Red Hot test was notable for the release of one million curies of radioactivity which drifted as far as eastern Iowa. The individual test shots were:
Flintlock Test Blasts Test Name Date Location Yield Note
Bronze 23 July 1965 Nevada Test Site about 60 kilotons Mauve 6 August 1965 Nevada Test Site about 18 kilotons Centaur 27 August 1965 Nevada Test Site <20 kilotons Screamer 1 September 1965 Nevada Test Site about 12 kilotons Charcoal 10 September 1965 Nevada Test Site 20-200 kilotons Elkhart 17 September 1965 Nevada Test Site <20 kilotons Longshot 29 October 1965 near Amchitka, Alaska 80 kilotons Sepia 12 November 1965 Nevada Test Site <20 kilotons Corduroy 3 December 1965 Nevada Test Site <20 kilotons Emerson 16 December 1965 Nevada Test Site <20 kilotons Buff 16 December 1965 Nevada Test Site about 36 kilotons Maxwell 13 January 1966 Nevada Test Site <20 kilotons Lampblack 18 January 1966 Nevada Test Site about 36 kilotons Dovekie 21 January 1966 Nevada Test Site <20 kilotons Plaid II 3 February 1966 Nevada Test Site about 32 kilotons Rex 24 February 1966 Nevada Test Site 19 kilotons Red Hot 5 March 1966 Nevada Test Site <20 kilotons Finfoot 7 March 1966 Nevada Test Site <20 kilotons Clymer 12 March 1966 Nevada Test Site <20 kilotons Purple 18 March 1966 Nevada Test Site <20 kilotons Templar 24 March 1966 Nevada Test Site <20 kilotons Operation Plowshare Lime 1 April 1966 Nevada Test Site <20 kilotons Stutz 6 April 1966 Nevada Test Site <20 kilotons Tomato 7 April 1966 Nevada Test Site <20 kilotons Duyea 14 April 1966 Nevada Test Site 70 kilotons Pin Stripe 25 April 1966 Nevada Test Site about 4 kilotons Traveler 4 May 1966 Nevada Test Site <20 kilotons Cyclamen 5 May 1966 Nevada Test Site 12 kilotons Chartreuse 6 May 1966 Nevada Test Site 73 kilotons Tapestry 12 May 1966 Nevada Test Site <20 kilotons Piranha 13 May 1966 Nevada Test Site about 100 kilotons Dumont 19 May 1966 Nevada Test Site about 190 kilotons Discus Thrower 27 May 1966 Nevada Test Site 22 kilotons Pile Driver 2 June 1966 Nevada Test Site 62 kilotons Tan 3 June 1966 Nevada Test Site about 140 kilotons Puce 10 June 1966 Nevada Test Site <20 kilotons Double Play 15 June 1966 Nevada Test Site <20 kilotons Kankakee 15 June 1966 Nevada Test Site <20 kilotons Vulcan 4 May 1966 Nevada Test Site 25 kilotons Operation Plowshare Halfbreak 30 June 1966 Nevada Test Site 365 kilotons Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Operation Flintlock."
Synonym: FlintlockSynonym: firelock (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Flintlock |
| English words defined with "flintlock": Brown Bess ♦ firelock, Frizel, fusil, fusilier ♦ gunflint. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "flintlock": Flint. (references) |
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| "Flintlock" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 85.71% of the time. "Flintlock" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 85.71% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Noun (proper) | 14.29% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 7 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "flintlock"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | pushkë me strall (Fusil), çark (range). (various references) | |
German | Steinschloss, Steinschloß. (various references) | |
Greek | τουφέκι πού ανάβει με τσακμακόπετρα. (various references) | |
Manx | glass aileagh. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | intlockflay.(various references) | |
Swedish | flintlåsgevär (firelock), flintlås (firelock), flintbössa. (various references) | |
Thai | ปืนไฟ. (various references) | |
Turkish | çakmaklı tüfek. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "flintlock": flintlocks. (additional references) | |
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"Flintlock" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Clintoch, Lintock. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "flintlock" (pronounced fli"ntlÄ'k) |
| 3 | -l Ä' k | deadlock, gridlock, hammerlock, Havelock, hemlock, matchlock, oarlock, padlock, roadblock, Sherlock, Shylock, wedlock. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-f-i-k-l-l-n-o-t" | |
-3 letters: confit, lintol. | |
-4 letters: clift, clink, clonk, colin, fillo, flick, flint, flock, knoll, lotic, nicol, ontic, tonic. | |
-5 letters: cion, clit, clon, clot, coft, coif, coil, coin, colt, coni, conk, fico, fill, filo, fink, fino, flic, flit, floc, foci, foil, foin, folk, font, icon, ikon, info, into, kill, kiln, kilo, kilt, kino, knit, knot, lick. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-f-i-k-l-l-n-o-t" | |
+1 letter: flintlocks. | |
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