snaphaunce

It was like reintroducing the matchlock or the snaphaunce, but Ruger doted on the single-shot, and that was that.

The 50 Best Guns of All Time 2005

This is a genuine snaphaunce, not to be confused with the Spanish or Moorish

A Catalogue of Early Pennsylvania and Other Firearms and Edged Weapons at "Restless Oaks" Henry W. Shoemaker

There were also matchlocks, snaphaunce pieces, pistols, swords and hangers (cutlasses).

Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century Annie Lash Jester

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

Down he gets from the saddle and me by the collar, and claps a great snaphaunce under my nose.

Black Bartlemy's Treasure Jeffery Farnol 1915

Reaching the firelock from the corner I found it to be furnished with a snaphaunce or flintlock, and though very rusty, methought cleaned and oiled it might make me a very good weapon had I but powder and shot for it.

Black Bartlemy's Treasure Jeffery Farnol 1915