Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See hackbut and harquebus.

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Examples

  • But no admonition would help, till that the wind of an hacquebute blasted his shoulder, and then ceased he from further pursuit in fury.

    Ivanhoe 2004

  • But no admonition would help, till that the wind of an hacquebute blasted his shoulder, and then ceased he from further pursuit in fury.

    Ivanhoe 1892

  • But no admonition would help, till that the wind of an hacquebute blasted his shoulder, and then ceased he from further pursuit in fury.

    Ivanhoe. A Romance 1819

  • But no admonition would help, till that the wind of an hacquebute blasted his shoulder, and then ceased he from further pursuit in fury.

    Ivanhoe Walter Scott 1801

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