firelock

Questions about firelock

What does firelock mean?

firelock means "a muzzle loader that had a flintlock type of gunlock".

How many syllables are in firelock?

firelock has 3 syllables and divides as fi-re-lock under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for firelock?

Close synonyms include flintlock. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is firelock a common word?

firelock is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.