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Definition of Matchlocks
1. matchlock [n] - See also: matchlock
Lexicographical Neighbors of Matchlocks
Literary usage of Matchlocks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of the Sikhs: From the Origin of the Nation to the Battles of the by Joseph Davey Cunningham (1853)
"... adopted the new and formidable match- armed"™th 'ос^ °^ recent times, instead
of their ancestral bows, matchlocks, and the spear common to every nation. ..."
2. The Ain i Akbari by Abū al-Faz̤l ibn Mubārak, Henry Blochmann, Henry Sullivan Jarrett (1873)
"ON matchlocks, &c. These are in particular favour with His Majesty, who stands
unrivalled in ... matchlocks are now made so strong, that they do not burst, ..."
3. In the Forbidden Land: An Account of a Journey Into Tibet, Capture by the by Arnold Henry Savage Landor (1909)
"Although the Tibetans boasted of great accuracy in shooting with their matchlocks,
which had wooden rests to allow the marksman to take a steady aim, ..."
4. Peking and the Pekingese During the First Year of the British Embassy at Peking by David Field Rennie (1865)
"... to the Great Wall at the Kalgan Pass—The Feast of Lanterns—Manufacture of
matchlocks—Fraternal mourning—A dragon-kite—A Tien-tsin physiognomist—Signs of ..."
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