Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Components (hierarchy name)
4. components (objects parts)
5. [components by specific context]
6. weapon components
7. projectile weapon components
8. firearm components
9. [firearm locks and lock components]
10. locks (firearm components)
11. snaphances

Narrower term/s

• miquelet locks[+]
  • Italian miquelets

Anotations

Scope note:

Locks in which the steel and pan cover are made in one piece and the sear operates vertically to engage in two notches in a tumbler attached to the inner end of the cock spindle, to place the mechanism in either half-cock or full cock. When the trigger is pressed, the flint strikes the steel and simultaneously the pan is uncovered, exposing the priming powder therein to a shower of sparks that ignite the charge.