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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Arquebus \Ar"que*bus\, Arquebuse \Ar"que*buse\ (?; 277), n. [F.
arquebuse, OF harquebuse, fr D. haak-bus; cf G.
hakenb["u]chse a gun with a hook. See {Hagbut}.]
A sort of hand gun or firearm a contrivance answering to a
trigger, by which the burning match was applied. The musket
was a later invention. [Written also {harquebus}.]
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
arquebus
n : an obsolete long-barrelled firearm [syn: {harquebus}, {hackbut},
{hagbut}]
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