Definition of Wheellock. Meaning of Wheellock. Synonyms of Wheellock

- A wheellock, wheel-lock, or wheel lock is a friction-wheel mechanism which creates a spark that causes a firearm to fire. It was the next major development...
- kept alight in case one end should be accidentally extinguished. The wheellock was the next major development in firearms technology after the matchlock...
- barrel length (e.g. 24 inches), to the firing mechanism (e.g. matchlock, wheellock, flintlock, or percussion lock), to the design's primary intended use...
- Kiefuss was a German inventor. He is sometimes credited with inventing the wheellock in Nuremberg in 1517. However, it is unlikely he was the actual inventor...
- priming powder which fires the gun. It is the mechanical progression of the wheellock firing mechanism, and along with the miquelet lock and doglock are predecessors...
- A double-barreled wheellock pistol was crafted by German gunsmith Peter Peck for Charles V in 1540. It is one of the oldest surviving European pistols...
- replaced earlier firearm-ignition technologies, such as the matchlock, the wheellock, and the earlier flintlock mechanisms such as the snaplock and snaphaunce...
- match. The pistol in question could be a snaplock but probably was a wheellock. Two years later is the letter-patent of the Emperor Maximilian I, banning...
- match and wheellock (European axe with five barrels under a removable blade) Carbine axe (European axe) Halberd double barreled wheellock (European halberd)...
- ammunition were amongst the first to be issued self-igniting guns like the wheellock and snaphance. The matchlock was also uneconomical to keep ready for long...