"matchlock" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘Dray Wara Yow Dee’, Black and White, volume 1, Folio Society, published 2004, page 372:",
          "text": "I crept silently up the hill-road, but the fuse of my matchlock was wetted with the rain, and I could not slay Daoud Shah from afar.",
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          "word": "lunttupyssy"
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          "word": "musketo"
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        "The gunlock used in such a weapon, having a slow smouldering match."
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      "word": "lunttupyssy"
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      "word": "mechofusilo"
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