fire-locks

Updated: June 10, 2025

For my father had rather encouraged me to practise with his fowling-piece, as also with one of the heavy fire-locks we had in the house. "An emergency might come," he said; and what with his instructions and those of Morgan, I was, if not a good marksman, as fairly expert as could be expected from a boy of my years.

George Manville Fenn - Mass' George: A Boy's Adventures in the Old Savannah