frizel

English

Noun

frizel (plural frizels)

  1. A movable furrowed piece of steel struck by the flint, to throw sparks into the pan, in an early form of flintlock.

References
  • 1874, Edward H. Knight, American Mechanical Dictionary
  • frizel in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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