gunlock

Other forms of gunlock

plural

gunlocks·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about gunlock

What does gunlock mean?

gunlock means "the action that ignites the charge in a firearm".

How many syllables are in gunlock?

gunlock has 2 syllables: gun-lock. The stress falls on "gun".

What is another word for gunlock?

Close synonyms include firing mechanism. 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 gunlock a common word?

gunlock 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.