Locks in which a spring-operated cock holding a piece of flint or pyrite strikes sparks from a piece of steel pivoted vertically over the pan of priming powder, igniting it.
AAT
3000210994
English locks
flintlocks
Scottish snaphances
snaphaunce pistol
locks, snap
locks, snaphance
snap locks
snap-locks
snaphaans
snaphance locks
snaphaunces
12yrs ago
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