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matchlock|ˈmætʃlɒk|
[f. match n.2 + lock n.2]
1. A gun lock in which slow-match is placed for igniting the powder.
b. attrib.: matchlock musket = 2.
1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 139 The Infantry [consists] of Gentues, with Match-Lock Muskets. 1727–52Chambers Cycl. s.v. Carabine, The carabine..was formerly made with a match-lock, but of late only with a flint-lock. 1786Grose Anc. Armour & Weapons 64 Musquets were fired with match locks. a1854H. Reed Lect. Brit. Poets viii. (1857) 289 The clumsy matchlock musket of olden time. 1859All Year Round No. 4. 87 The hand guns were used with a matchlock till the pyrites wheel lock was invented.
2. A musket having a matchlock.
1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 99 Matchlocks, Swords, and Javelins. 1795Anderson Brit. Emb. China 71 Others are armed with match-locks of a very rusty appearance. 1875Maine Hist. Inst. x. 290 The battle was waged out of Court with sword and matchlock.
b. attrib.: matchlock-man, a soldier armed with a matchlock.
1782Hist. Europe in Ann. Reg. (1783) 32/1 No less than 1,800 were match-lock-men. 1893W. Forbes-Mitchell Remin. Gt. Mutiny 254 Some seven or eight hundred matchlock⁓men opened fire on them.
Hence ˈmatchlocked a., having matchlocks, armed with matchlocks.
1871Forsyth Highl. India 296 A whole posse of matchlocked shikáris. |