frizel

English

Noun

frizel (plural frizels)

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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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