wheel lock

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   an obsolete gunlock using flint and a revolving wheel

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Questions about wheel lock

What does wheel lock mean?

wheel lock means "an obsolete gunlock using flint and a revolving wheel".

Is wheel lock a common word?

wheel lock 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.