noun. A heavy portable matchlock gun invented during the 1400s.

noun. An old form of hand-firearm.

noun. A harquebusier.

noun. A firearm with match holder, trigger, and tumbler, made in the second half of the 15th century. The barrel was about forty inches long. A form of the harquebus was subsequently called arquebus with matchlock.

noun. An obsolete matchlock firearm.

noun. an obsolete firearm with a long barrel

"It was also typical that the prosecutor would have enlisted someone else to deliver it, one of the lads who regarded Arkady as ancient and as unpredictable as a loaded harquebus."