Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A device for igniting the charge of a firearm.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The mechanism of a gun by which the hammer is controlled both in cocking the piece and in exploding the charge.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The mechanism of a gun for producing the discharge. See
lock .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
mechanism fitted to acannon that fires it when acord is pulled.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the action that ignites the charge in a firearm
Etymologies
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Examples
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It includes the gunlock application to unlock the SIM card.
Archive 2008-03-01 2008
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It includes the gunlock application to unlock the SIM card.
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A bombshell filled with gunpowder, a gunlock, and a small clock, have been suggested as forming the components of this invention.
The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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Since walnut does not warp or swell when wet it does not interfere with the action of the gunlock in gun stocks.
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Mayall then took his gunlock from the pocket of the Indian on the shore, who had stayed behind to engineer and direct the crossing, placed it upon his own gun, dragged the Indian into the current of the river, and he, too, floated down, and sunk with the first two in the deep, dark waters of the Susquehanna.
The Forest King Wild Hunter of the Adaca Hervey Keyes
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"Well, snap my gunlock, if it isn't Jack Darrow!" exclaimed Andy.
Through Space to Mars Or the Longest Journey on Record Roy Rockwood
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He leaped instantly to the shelter of a great trunk and his hand sprang to his gunlock, but no other sound followed, and he wondered.
The Eyes of the Woods A story of the Ancient Wilderness 1890
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George, whose face, some said, resembled the inside of a gunlock, being the war-horse.
The old plantation : how we lived in great house and cabin before the war, 1879
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Fowler took to a tree, and shot Indians till his gunlock got out of order.
Stories Of Ohio William Dean Howells 1878
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But here is the place of broken ground and tangle, which calls to honourable men, not bent on sport, to be wary to guard the gunlock.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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