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musket |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Musket \Mus"ket\, n. [F. mousquet, It moschetto formerly, a kind of hawk; cf OF mousket, moschet a kind of hawk falcon, F. mouchet prop., a little fly (the hawk prob. being named from its size), fr L. musca a fly. Cf {Mosquito}.] [Sometimes written also {musquet}.] 1. (Zo["o]l.) The male of the sparrow hawk. 2. A species of firearm formerly carried by the infantry of an army. It was originally fired by means of a match, or matchlock, for which several mechanical appliances (including the flintlock, and finally the percussion lock) were successively substituted. This arm has been generally superseded by the rifle. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: musket n : a long-barrelled muzzle-loading shoulder gun formerly used by infantrymen
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