| After one year scholars are to be taught fencing and the use of the firelock. |
| My religion consists in a firelock, open touchhole, good flint, well rammed charge, and seventy rounds of powder and ball. |
| His firelock had a large touch-hole, so that the powder could be shaken out into the pan, and the gun made to prime itself. |
| He looked at me wildly, and I saw the firelock he held tremble in his hand. |
| Does your honor mane to say that you are going to shoulder a firelock, and just go as privates? |
| He has hunted extensively with his period guns, and finds the added challenge of hunting with a firelock adds zest to his hunting like tossing red chili into the stew pot. |
