Snaphance

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  • n. A spring lock for discharging a firearm.
  • n. The firearm to which it is attached.
  • n. A trifling or second-rate thing or person.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A spring lock for discharging a firearm; also, the firearm to which it is attached.
  • n. A trifling or second-rate thing or person.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A spring-lock of a gun or pistol.
  • n. Hence A hand-gun or a pistol made to be fired by flint and steel.
  • n. A snappish retort; a curt or sharp answer; a repartee.
  • Snappish; retorting sharply.
    • Word Usage
    "In the late sixteenth century, gunsmiths developed a new lock called a snaphance."
     
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