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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. an early style of musket; a slow-burning wick would be lowered into a hole in the breech to ignite the charge;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Matchlock \Match"lock`\, n. An old form of gunlock containing a match for firing the priming; hence, a musket fired by means of a match. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

matchlock n 1: an early style of musket; a slow-burning wick would be lowered into a hole in the breech to ignite the charge