dial. Also 7 frezel, 9 friz(z)el. [? Corruption of FUSIL.] (See quot. 1892.)
1619. Z. Boyd, Last Battell Soul (1629), 1266. He is euer readie to strik fyre with his frezell and his flint, if wee will find him tinder.
c. 1817. Hogg, The Long Pack, in Tales & Sk. (1837), III. 192. Putting down the frizzel, and making it spring up again with a loud snap five or six times.
1892. Northumbld. Gloss., 305. Frizzle, in flint and steel guns the piece of iron acted on by the flint to produce the explosion.
