Musketoon

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A light and short hand-gun: in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries a usual weapon of cavalry.
  • noun. A soldier armed with a musketoon: generally used in the plural.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A short musket.
  • noun. One who is armed with such a musket.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A firearm, similar to a musket but with a shorter barrel.
  • noun. One who is armed with such a musket.
    • Word Usage
    "Blunderbuss: This is a heavy musket with a bell-shaped barrel, also referred to as a musketoon."
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