matchlock

musketti, lunttulukko Early type of firearm, using a smoldering piece of cord to fire the powder in the firing pan.
1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘Dray Wara Yow Dee’, Black and White, Folio Society 2004, vol. 1, p. 372:

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.