meaning of flintlock
1.  A lock for a gun or pistol, having a flint fixed in the hammer, which on striking the steel ignites the priming. 
2.  A hand firearm fitted with a flintlock; esp. , the old-fashioned musket of European and other armies. 
3.  a gunlock that has flint embedded in the hammer; the flint makes a spark that ignites the charge
						 
