Harquebus

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A heavy portable matchlock gun invented during the 15th century. Also called hackbut.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. An obsolete matchlock firearm.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A firearm with match holder, trigger, and tumbler, made in the second half of the 15th century. The barrel was about forty inches long. A form of the harquebus was subsequently called arquebus with matchlock.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. An old form of hand-firearm.
  • n. A harquebusier.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. an obsolete firearm with a long barrel
    • Equivalent
    harquebuse   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    muzzle-loader   
    Cross Reference
    double harquebus   
     
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