frizel

noun

frizel

noun

1

Engineering, Firearms, Government, Military, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Politics, Tools, War, Weaponry Historical A movable furrowed piece of steel struck by the flint, to throw sparks into the pan, in an early form of flintlock.

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.1832, The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia, volume 10, page 164:

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