Flintlock: alternatives and connections

A tool or instrument of steel, or of iron with a steel edge or blade, for felling trees, chopping and splitting wood, hewing timber, e…

To lock, or fasten as with a lock.

See Cast steel, under Steel.

Steel blue; of the color of tempered steel.

The hammer in the lock of a firearm.

The act of striking together; a striking together, as of two hard bodies; a violent meeting, as of railroad trains; a clashing.

Damask or Damascus steel; also, the peculiar markings or "water" of such steel.

Iron pyrites, formerly used for striking fire; also, a flint.

A piece of flint for striking fire; -- formerly much used, esp. in the hammers of gun locks.

A movable furrowed piece of steel struck by the flint, to throw sparks into the pan, in an early form of flintlock.

To yield; to furnish; to produce; to emit; as, flint and steel give sparks.

A flat saucerlike bell, rung by striking it with a small hammer which is connected with it by various mechanical devices; a stationary…

A plate of metal, beneath the stock, or the lock frame, of a gun or pistol, having a loop, called a bow, to protect the trigger.

That part of a gunlock which strikes the percussion cap, or firing pin; the cock; formerly, however, a piece of steel covering the pan…

A member of one description of roof truss, called hammer-beam truss, which is so framed as not to have a tiebeam at the top of the wal…

A shark of the genus Sphyrna or Zygaena, having the eyes set on projections from the sides of the head, which gives it a hammer shape.…

The lever at the end of which is the hammer head, in a forge hammer.

To give, cause, or produce by striking, or as if by striking; to apply forcibly; to lay or impose; to send; to cause to bear, feel, or…