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Gunflint

A sharpened flint for the lock of a gun, to ignite the charge. It was in common use before the introduction of percussion caps.

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Flint 76% connected

A massive, somewhat impure variety of quartz, in color usually of a gray to brown or nearly black, breaking with a conchoidal fracture and sharp edge…

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Flintlock 70% connected

A lock for a gun or pistol, having a flint fixed in the hammer, which on striking the steel ignites the priming.

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Abattis noun · 78% connection

A means of defense formed by felled trees, the ends of whose branches are sharpened and directed outwards, or against the enemy.

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Acquit verb · 78% connection

To set free, release or discharge from an obligation, duty, liability, burden, or from an accusation or charge; -- now followed by of…

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Ammunition noun · 78% connection

Articles used in charging firearms and ordnance of all kinds; as powder, balls, shot, shells, percussion caps, rockets, etc.

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Bandbox noun · 78% connection

A light box of pasteboard or thin wood, usually cylindrical, for holding ruffs (the bands of the 17th century), collars, caps, bonnets…

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Belock verb · 78% connection

To lock, or fasten as with a lock.

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Brimless adjective · 78% connection

Having no brim; as, brimless caps.

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Cap noun · 78% connection

A percussion cap. See under Percussion.

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Capper noun · 78% connection

One whose business is to make or sell caps.

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Charge verb · 78% connection

To lay on or impose, as a task, duty, or trust; to command, instruct, or exhort with authority; to enjoin; to urge earnestly; as, to c…

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Com- unknown · 78% connection

A prefix from the Latin preposition cum, signifying with, together, in conjunction, very, etc. It is used in the form com- before b, m…

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Coxcomb noun · 78% connection

A strip of red cloth notched like the comb of a cock, which licensed jesters formerly wore in their caps.

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Crystal noun · 78% connection

A species of glass, more perfect in its composition and manufacture than common glass, and often cut into ornamental forms. See Flint…

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