Talk:Lock, stock, and barrel

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--CopyToWiktionaryBot 07:14, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

Are we sure this is the correct etymology?
I always heard it was referring to the purchase of a general store, you would contract for the lock, the stock, and the barrel. The lock means the lock on the door, the stock means the flour or whatever the general store sold, and the barrel was what the flour came in. So therefore if you bought a store lock, stock, and barrel, then you were getting the store building itself, the store fixtures contained within, and the actual store inventory. Oftentimes you would not buy those three things together.

Seems like that makes more sense than describing it as parts of a musket. Jimindc (talk) 18:59, 16 June 2016 (UTC)

Rifle
"more specifically a rifle" Not really. The term also refers to parts of a musket, or indeed a pistol. A musket, particularly a matchlock, pretty much only consist of those three bits. 82.37.163.124 (talk) 20:45, 15 April 2015 (UTC)

The part that caused the gun to go bang.
Isn't there a better way of putting it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.27.222.35 (talk) 21:12, 21 June 2015 (UTC)