单词 | firelock piece |
释义 | > as lemmasfirelock piece General attributive, as firelock musket, firelock piece. ΚΠ 1575 G. Gascoigne Complaint Greene Knight in Posies 183 My chaunce was late to haue a peereles firelock peece. 1631 Schedule of Prices in S. R. Meyrick Crit. Inq. into Antient Armour (1824) III. 101 For a pair of firelock pistols. a1672 A. Wood Life (1848) 24 Capt. Bunce returned safe..with..six fire-lock musquets. 1750 H. Snell Female Soldier 47 Well disciplined in the Firelock-Exercise. 1856 G. J. Cayley Bridle Roads of Spain (ed. 2) xvi.149 A few men, with very long firelock-muskets followed. 2007 A. M. Little Abraham in Arms i. 37 Flint- or firelock muskets were faster and easier to load and fire. < as lemmas |
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