matchlock

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

matchlock
    n 1: an early style of musket; a slow-burning wick would be
         lowered into a hole in the breech to ignite the charge

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Matchlock \Match"lock`\, n.
   An old form of gunlock containing a match for firing the
   priming; hence, a musket fired by means of a match.
   [1913 Webster]

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