Musket

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  • noun. A smoothbore shoulder gun used from the late 1500s through the 1700s.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. In falconry, an inferior kind of hawk; a sparrow-hawk. See eyas-musket.
  • noun. A hand-gun for soldiers, introduced in European armies in the sixteenth century: it succeeded the harquebus, and became in time the common arm of the infantry.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The male of the sparrow hawk.
  • noun. A species of firearm formerly carried by the infantry of an army. It was originally fired by means of a match, or matchlock, for which several mechanical appliances (including the flintlock, and finally the percussion lock) were successively substituted. This arm has been completely superseded by the rifle, and is now only of historical interest.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A species of firearm formerly carried by the infantry of an army. It was originally fired by means of a match, or matchlock, for which several mechanical appliances (including the flintlock, and finally the percussion lock) were successively substituted. This arm has been superseded by the rifle.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a muzzle-loading shoulder gun with a long barrel; formerly used by infantrymen
    • cross-reference
    bastard musket  
    Form
    musketeer  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    muzzle-loader  
    Hyponym
    Words that are more specific
    blunderbuss  culverin  fusil  matchlock  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    ammunition  artillery  bayonet  blaster  bullet  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    automatic  blowgun  blowpipe  caliver  culverin  
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