| 单词 | matchlock |
| 释义 | matchlock (once / 11784 pages) n WORD FAMILY matchlock: matchlocks USAGE EXAMPLESAt that time, the word “arms” meant muskets and matchlock rifles, not weapons that enable an emotionally unbalanced person to commit mass murder in seconds. Washington Post(Jun 01, 2014) We are as much bygones as the old flint musket or the matchlock. Lever, Charles James, Barrington—Volume I (of II)(2012) The musketeers carried matchlocks, useless in wet weather, and European-made double-barrelled guns, muskets, and pistols, generally of very inferior quality. Lindley, Augustus F., Ti-Ping Tien-Kwoh—The History of th...(2012) n an early style of musket; a slow-burning wick would be lowered into a hole in the breech to ignite the charge Hyper musket a muzzle-loading shoulder gun with a long barrel; formerly used by infantrymen |
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