musket
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- noun
- /ˈmʌskɪt/
- Archaic
:
mosquete
- They stood firm and repelled the enemy with disciplined musket fire and Bennett charges.
- musket balls
- musket fire
- musket bayonet
They stood firm and repelled the enemy with disciplined musket fire and Bennett charges.
- They stood firm and repelled the enemy with disciplined musket fire and Bennett charges.
- All we did was ride horses, sword fight, load and fire muskets and throw Tomahawks.
- A bunch of people who are misfits from the UK, who are farmers, who had pitchforks, got muskets and beat the best army in the world.
- By the way, in the hold of one of those ships, it was jammed with gunpowder and muskets.
- Now they also could have had they did have the advantage of what is simply known as the rifled musket.
- There was a rash of drive by crossbow muskets also, like didn't last very long.
- Clocks are famous in New England, muskets are famous up and down the Connecticut River Valley.
- It's like a musket under the bed.
- They were wore the the long gun with the musket or not musket, but it had a long, not sword, but knife, bayonet at the tip.
Examples
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My king, they are a nation twice our size, with horses and more muskets.
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Men raced to pull on their jackets, snatch up muskets, and sling on cartridge boxes.
Fiction book (1990) -
No man is to draw sword or fire musket without direct order.
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"I give you this one chance to turn back," he says, raising his musket as he turns.
Academic text (2007) -
The priest came up to Vincent and held the musket up before him.
Fiction book (1990) -
Orders were given and soldiers pointed their muskets at the crowd.
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We'll take the musket and see If we can't find some game on the way, eh?
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During the Civil War, some soldiers just kept loading their muskets without ever firing.
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Visitors will see demonstrations of camp cooking, musket loading and firing, fortification building, and 18th-century medical practices.
Academic text (1995) -
In the battle, the soldiers shouldered their muskets and prepared for the charge.
Synonyms
A short heavy gun used at close range in the past, often by sailors or cavalry
Compounds
How Long
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word musket comes from the old French word mousquet, and you can see the same root in musketeer. One idea is that mousquet was linked to a word for a 'small bird' or to 'spark', because early muskets used a piece of stone to make sparks to fire. That's why a musket is a long shoulder firearm used by soldiers.