frizel

English

Noun

frizel (plural frizels)

1. (firearms, historical) A movable furrowed piece of steel struck by the flint, to throw sparks into the pan, in an early form of flintlock.
   • 1832, The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia, volume 10, page 164:

     To this succeeded the Snaplance ^[sic], in which a motion was given to the dog, or cock, and a movable plate of steel, called the frizel, or hammer, was placed vertically above the pan to receive the action of the flint.

References

• Edward H[enry] Knight (1877) “Frizel”, in Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary. […], volumes I (A–GAS), New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton […], →OCLC.
• “frizel”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.