rifle-lock

Updated: May 31, 2025

The entire party halted as if with one accord, and would have turned to look at us, but that the sergeant said, sharply, emphasizing the words by the click of his rifle-lock as he cocked the weapon: "Keep a-movin' unless you're achin' to have a bullet put through the back of every blessed one in the gang!" "But, look here, this is too much of a joke," one of them cried, with a drunken laugh.

James Otis - The Minute Boys of the Mohawk Valley