Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
rewet .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A small wheel formerly fixed to the pan of firelocks for discharging them.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A small
wheel formerly fixed to the pan offirelocks fordischarging them.
Etymologies
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Examples
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It is not a conventional matchlock, as historians have written, but a complex and very costly arquebuse à rouet, a wheel-lock arquebus.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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The technology that produced the arquebuse à rouet also led to the development of wheel-lock pistols, which were larger than modern handguns but small enough to be hidden in clothing.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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A Quebec inventory in that year listed four “harquebuses à rouet” and forty “mousquets avec leurs bandoliers.”
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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The arquebuse à rouet was an advanced model of a very costly weapon.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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In 1609–10, Champlain fought the Mohawk with this arquebuse à rouet, a wheel lock weapon that did not require a burning match.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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Inventories of weapons at Quebec refer explicitly to the presence of “harquebuses à rouet.”
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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In 1639–42, the average value of an arquebus à rouet was 80 livres; flintlock muskets were valued at 6 livres.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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The technology that produced the arquebuse à rouet also led to the development of wheel-lock pistols, which were larger than modern handguns but small enough to be hidden in clothing.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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In short, Champlain fought at Lake Champlain, and probably at the Rivière des Iroquois and the Onondaga Village, with an arquebuse à rouet that was fired by a wheel lock.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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The wheel lock, or rouet, may have been invented by Johann Kiefuss in Germany in 1517.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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