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  • noun Plural form of musket.

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Examples

  • These included a matchlock "forced upon" the former by the Sind Amir Mir Rustam Khan, fifty remount horses "with permission to use them if need be, 100 muskets from the stores of Bukkur (through Colonel Gordon), and 33 matchlocks costing Rs. 8 each." back

    Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008

  • “Why, sir, Señor Yanez is the gunsmith—the muskets were his responsibility,” Gladwyn said, smiling a thin smile.

    The Berrybender Narratives Larry McMurtry 2004

  • The infantry were brave and well-disciplined, but their muskets were the worst in Europe, being mostly of the pattern of 1754, while over-regimentation had led to formalized tactics that discouraged initiative.

    THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966

  • The infantry were brave and well-disciplined, but their muskets were the worst in Europe, being mostly of the pattern of 1754, while over-regimentation had led to formalized tactics that discouraged initiative.

    THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966

  • This was a dramatic but ineffectual form of protest, because nearly all the muskets were the private property of the men themselves, who soon came back to take their favourite weapons up again.

    The Great Fortress : A chronicle of Louisbourg 1720-1760 William Charles Henry Wood 1905

  • The glint of their muskets is the message from their illustrious sovereign of her feeling to this part of her kingdom.

    Peg O' My Heart J. Hartley Manners 1899

  • They rested an hour at the village where he had slept overnight; the muskets were a quarter of a mile to the rear of them.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

  • They rested an hour at the village where he had slept overnight; the muskets were a quarter of a mile to the rear of them.

    Vittoria — Complete George Meredith 1868

  • They rested an hour at the village where he had slept overnight; the muskets were a quarter of a mile to the rear of them.

    Vittoria — Volume 4 George Meredith 1868

  • To drop their sledge-lines and seize their muskets was the work of a moment.

    The World of Ice 1859

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