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Flint vs Snaplock - What's the difference?

flint | snaplock |

As a proper noun flint

is a city in michigan.

As a noun snaplock is

a mechanism for firing a gun that ignites the propellant by means of sparks produced when a spring-powered cock strikes a flint down on to a piece of hardened steel.

flint

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A hard, fine-grained quartz that fractures conchoidally and generates sparks when struck.
  • A piece of flint, such as a gunflint, used to produce a spark.
  • A small cylinder of some other material of the same function in a cigarette lighter, etc.

    • Derived terms

    * gunflint

    See also

    * chert * ferrocerium

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To furnish or decorate an object with flint.

    • snaplock

    English

    (wikipedia snaplock)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A mechanism for firing a gun that ignites the propellant by means of sparks produced when a spring-powered cock strikes a flint down on to a piece of hardened steel.

    • See also

    * snaphaunce