Definitions
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- noun firearms The
lock that preceded the trueflintlock in bothrifles andpistols in the 17th century.
Etymologies
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Examples
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By 1625, however, the picture had changed, for the wheel-lock, snaphaunce, and "doglock," were being used in large numbers, and the matchlock had become obsolete.
New Discoveries at Jamestown Site of the First Successful English Settlement in America J. Paul Hudson
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** "The Sharpshooters" (a term barely known until nearly the CW) carrying rifles (while they show a doglock being held by a frontiersmen) ... and then claim they had the advantage of batonets
Southern Maryland Community Forums Hessian 2010
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** "The Sharpshooters" (a term barely known until nearly the CW) carrying rifles (while they show a doglock being held by a frontiersmen) ... and then claim they had the advantage of batonets
Southern Maryland Community Forums Hessian 2010
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