 Complete the following phrase:  The origin of the name snaphance is thought to come from the Dutch Snaphaan which roughly means pecking rooster and relates to the shape of the mechanism and its downward-darting action and would also explain the name cock for the beak-shaped mechanism which holds the flint. In German, the calque Schnapphahn moved away from the earlier definitions and has traditionally referred to a mounted highwayman, who would have been likely to use a firearm of that nature. The French chenapan also changed its meaning in the seventeenth century to define a rogue or scoundrel. During the 