As nouns the difference between flintlock and jezail
is that
flintlock is an early type of firearm, using a spring-loaded flint to strike sparks into the firing pan while
jezail is an afghan matchlock or flintlock musket fired from a forked rest.
flintlock English
Noun
( en noun)
An early type of firearm, using a spring-loaded flint to strike sparks into the firing pan.
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*:But then I had the flintlock by me for protection. ¶ There were giants in the days when that gun was made; for surely no modern mortal could have held that mass of metal steady to his shoulder. The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window,.
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jezail Noun
( en noun)
An Afghan matchlock or flintlock musket fired from a forked rest.
*1887 , (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle), A Study in Scarlet , I:
*:There I was struck on the shoulder by a Jezail bullet, which shattered the bone and grazed the subclavian artery.
*1990 , (Peter Hopkirk), The Great Game , Folio Society 2010, p. 9:
*:Those deadly, long-barrelled jezails , which once wrought such slaughter among the British redcoats, had as their modern counterparts the heat-seeking Stinger, which proved so lethal against Russian helicopter-gunships.
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