Definition of snaphance Snaphance

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What does snaphance mean?

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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘

  • snaphance (n.)
    A spring lock for discharging a firearm; also, the firearm to which it is attached.
  • snaphance (n.)
    A trifling or second-rate thing or person.

Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕

  • snaphance
    snaf′ans, n. a term originally applied to the spring-lock of a gun or pistol, but afterwards applied to the gun itself, a Dutch firelock of the 17th century: a snappish retort.—Also Snaph′aunce. [Dut. snaphaan—snappen, to snap, haan, a cock.]

Military DictionaryMilitary Dictionary and Gazetteer 💥

  • snaphance
    An old musket of the 17th and first half of the 18th centuries, called also asnaphan. See GUN.

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