Look up: Musket

1. musket
   [n] - a muzzle-loading shoulder gun with a long barrel
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2. musket
   Long-barrelled shoulder gun with a smooth bore, loaded through the muzzle, used from the late 16th to late 19th centuries.
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3. Musket
   Mus'ket noun [ French mousquet , Italian moschetto , formerly, a kind of hawk; confer Old French mousket , moschet , a kind of hawk falcon, French mouchet , prop., a little fly (the hawk probably being named from its s...
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4. musket
   1. <zoology> 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 su...
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5. musket
   noun a muzzle-loading shoulder gun with a long barrel; formerly used by infantrymen
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6. Musket
   • (n.) 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 super...
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7. musket
   muzzle-loading shoulder firearm, evolved in 16th-century Spain as a larger version of the harquebus (q.v.). It was replaced in the mid-19th century ... [7 related articles]
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8. musket
   musket: see small arms.
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9. Musket
   A musket was a hand-gun first introduced in the early 16th century as a development of the culverin and arquebus. It was discharged by means of a lighted match, which gave rise to its name matchlock. It was so heavy that it had to be laid across a staff or rest to be fired. To make use of it the sol...
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10. Musket
    s aboard the frigate Grand Turk. A `musket` is a muzzle-loaded, smooth bore long gun, fired from the shoulder. Muskets were designed for use by infantry. A soldier armed with a musket had the designation musketman or musketeer. The musket replaced the arquebus, and was in turn replaced...
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11. Musket
    (horse) `Musket` (1867–1885) was an English-bred Thoroughbred racehorse and a Leading sire in Australia and New Zealand. Breeding: He was sired by Toxophilite, his dam was a bay mare (1857) who was a half-sister to General Peel’s dam, by West Australian (winner of the 1853 Briti...
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