A
doglock is a type of
lock for firearms that preceded the 'true'
flintlock in fusils, muskets, and pistols in the 17th century. Commonly used throughout Europe in the 17th century, it gained popular favor in the British and Dutch military. A doglock carbine was the principal weapon of the
harquebusier, the most numerous type of cavalry in the armies of the
Thirty Years' War and
English Civil War era. Like the
snaphance, it was largely supplanted by the flintlock.