A gunlock, employed in firearms using gunpowder, in which sparks are generated to ignite the priming.

Scottish. A firelock. Obsolete.

= wheel-lock, n. 1; (more generally) a gun lock. Also attributive in rewet work, rewet carbine.

An early form of flintlock used in muskets and pistols (cf. 3); also, the hammer of this.

Firearms. Originally: a true flintlock, having a wholly interior mechanism, opposed to the earlier English lock, where the catch for the cock must…

A form of gun-lock in which the powder was fired by the friction of a small wheel (wound up with a spring) against a piece of iron pyrites. Also…

A gun-lock in which a flint, screwed to the cock, is struck against the hammer and produces sparks which ignite the priming in the flash-pan. Also…

A gunlock in which a piece of smouldering slow match is used to ignite the charge.

= percussion lock n.

a form of gunlock in which the charge is fired by means of a percussion cap; also attributive.

Firearms. A gunlock incorporating a device which throws back the hammer after it has struck the cap; (also) a device of this type. Now rare.

a gunlock fitted with a rebounder.

Firearms. A type of Spanish flintlock, chiefly characterized by its horizontally operating sear (more fully miquelet lock). Also: a gun with such a…