musket

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Mike followed, armed with his shillelah, for his musket was abandoned in the surprise, and he began to lay about him with an earnestness that in nowise lessened the clamour.

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  1. noun A smoothbore shoulder gun used from the late 16th through the 18th century.

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  • Lazar had told us our enemies had one musket: I also had a musket, and an excellent sabre, and each of us was provided with a pair of pistols. —  Life and Adventures of Baron Trenck
  • For the musket was notoriously poor at hitting any definite target at any distance. —  Mary Balogh - Beyond the Sunrise
  • His musket was certainly an old army musket, abandoned after Napoleon's last defeat, but it was clean, it was cocked and the tall man held it confidently. —  Gallows Thief by Bernard Cornwell
  • When the 2nd ammendment was written a musket was the technology of the day. —  LJWorld.com stories: News
  • The age of the musket is also the age of the bayonette and the sabre. —  Eurogamer
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  1. French mousquet, from Italian moschetto, a type of crossbow, musket, from moschetta, little fly, bolt of a crossbow, diminutive of mosca, fly, from Latin musca.

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  1. Also musquet; from Middle English musket, muskytte, from Old French mousket, mosquet, moschet, mouschet, mouchet, etc. (French mouchet, emouchet (Middle Latin muscetus, muschetus) = Italian moschetto, also with different suffix, moscardo), a kind of hawk, so called with reference to spots on its breast, or more prob. from its small size, being compared to a fly, diminutive from Latin musca, a fly (later Old French mousche, French mouche, a spot, a fly: see mouche). Cf. mosquito.
  2. Formerly also musquet; = Dutch musket = German muskete = Swedish musköt = Danish musket, from Old French mousquete. mousquet (French mousquet), masculine, mouschete, moschete, feminine, = Spanish Portuguese mosquete (Middle Latin muschetta, muscheta), from Italian moschetto, a musket (gun), so called (like other names of firearms, e. g. falcon, falconet, saker) from a hawk, from moschetto, a kind of hawk: see musket.
 

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