matchlock

9 letters · noun · scores 2,600 in SpellHuntr

noun

an early style of musket; a slow-burning wick would be lowered into a hole in the breech to ignite the charge

Matchlock in a sentence

I crept silently up the hill-road, but the fuse of my matchlock was wetted with the rain, and I could not slay Daoud Shah from afar.

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