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Definition: Matchlock |
MatchlockNoun1. An early style of musket; had a slow burning wick that could be lowered into a hole in the breech to ignite the charge. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "matchlock" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1896. (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: Matchlock |
| English words defined with "matchlock": Harquebuse. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Expression using "matchlock": arquebus with matchlock. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
matchlock | 22 |
matchlock gun | 9 |
japanese matchlock rifle | 5 |
matchlock musket | 4 |
construct matchlock musket | 2 |
matchlock musket sale | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "matchlock"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | فتيل بندقية. (various references) | |
French | fusil mèche. (various references) | |
German | luntenschloss. (various references) | |
Italian | fucile a miccia. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 火縄銃 (arquebus). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ひなわじゅう (arquebus). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | atchlockmay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | mosquete (musket). (various references) | |
Romanian | puşcã cu fitil, flintã (firelock, musket). (various references) | |
Russian | фитильный замок. (various references) | |
Spanish | cerrojo de mecha. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | гнотовий замок. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "matchlock": matchlocks. (additional references) | |
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"Matchlock" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Methlick. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "matchlock" (pronounced ma"khlÄ'k) |
| 3 | -l Ä' k | deadlock, flintlock, gridlock, hammerlock, Havelock, hemlock, oarlock, padlock, roadblock, Sherlock, Shylock, wedlock. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-h-k-l-m-o-t" | |
-3 letters: chalot, klatch. | |
-4 letters: acock, altho, catch, chalk, chock, clach, clack, cloak, clock, cloth, coach, coact, comal, latch, loach, loath, lotah, macho, match, mocha, octal, thack. | |
-5 letters: alto, amok, atom, calk, calm, calo, cham, chao, chat, clam, clot, coal, coat, coca, cola, colt, coma, hack, halm, halo, halt, hock, holk, holm, holt, khat, kohl. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-h-k-l-m-o-t" | |
+1 letter: matchlocks. | |
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