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hagbut

hagbut

9.9
An old gun with a long barrel used by soldiers to shoot from a distance
  • noun
  • Archaic
translation icon : hagbut
  • The museum displays a rare hagbut from the sixteenth century.

Examples

  • In battle, soldiers armed with a hagbut could fire from a distance.

  • During the 16th century, hagbuts were commonly used by infantry.

  • The hagbut required a match to ignite the gunpowder.

  • The soldier carried a hagbut into battle.

  • The museum displays a rare hagbut from the sixteenth century.

  • In battle, soldiers armed with a hagbut could fire from a distance.

  • During the 16th century, hagbuts were commonly used by infantry.

Synonyms

arquebus
vshagbut
  • Archaic
1 9.9

A long early gun carried and fired from the shoulder used in the 1500s and 1600s

is the earlier form mainly used in the 15th and 16th centuries
harquebus
vshagbut
  • Archaic
9.9

A long gun soldiers used in the 1500s and 1600s

is used more for the earlier fifteenth and sixteenth century form
hackbut
vshagbut
  • Archaic
9.9

A long-barrel gun used in war from the 1400s to the 1600s

is the standard historical term used especially in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries

Surface Forms

hagbut singular
hagbuts plural

Etymology

Hagbut comes from a Dutch word haakbus, made of haak 'hook' and bus 'tube'. So a hagbut was a 'hook-tube', an early long gun with a long barrel and a hook to steady it, which explains the name.