musket in English

noun
1
an infantryman's light gun with a long barrel, typically smooth-bored, muzzleloading, and fired from the shoulder.
She held a musket and fired several shots, each hitting their marks.

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1. Culverin definition, medieval form of musket

2. You go a musket bullet is superior.

3. I hunted a musket two years ago.

4. Carbine, light, short-barrelled musket or rifle

5. Lorenzo gave me a deadline on my musket.

6. I hunted with a musket two years ago.

7. Take not a musket to kill a butterfly.

8. What does Culverin mean? An early, crudely made musket

9. Mounted a camel this unit a powerful musket a " jezail '. "

10. This right here is a musket used in the Civil War.

11. In olden times one had to charge a musket before firing.

12. Sudden and loud as the sound of a soldier grounding his musket.

13. Somewhere, and not so very far off, there was a musket fight.

14. I am as accomplished with sword and musket as I am in verse.

15. So some seconds passed, till suddenly Joyce whipped up his musket and fired.

16. 6 While underneath, in a corner, were fowling piece, musket, and matchlock.

17. Vintage Military rifle Bayonets and musket Bayonets for sale at International Military Antiques

18. Gray converted this Springfield Model 1861 Rifle Musket to a Breechloader on his system

19. Your dogs Bayed at the music your fathers made and your fathers shot them with musket fire and soon along your boulevards laid the musket scorched husks of collie dogs and basset hounds

20. Finally the socket bayonet slides onto the musket and then locks on a barrel lug.

21. This forerunner of the musket is capable of firing deadly volleys that can pierce armour.

22. The musket and cannon fire seemed so real, making history spring to life before my eyes.

23. Cannon, big gun, howitzer, or mortar, as distinguished from a musket, rifle, or other small arm

24. The old Tower musket went off with a bang, and a young buffalo Bellowed in pain.

25. This happened at the time when the long bow was finally succeeded by the musket and pike.

26. Posed him in a uniform with a musket in front of a wax image of General Washington.

27. Arquebus, a hand-gun; a species of fire-arm of the sixteenth century, resembling a musket

28. There was now a lull in the battle, though sporadic cannon and musket fire were still heard.

29. This page also include Vietnamese muskets – since the early definition of musket is "heavy Arquebus".

30. Not a bough waved, not the gleam of a musket - barrel betrayed the presence of our foes.

31. He led his men back to Charleroi where a desultory musket fight was flickering across the river.

32. Many Blunderbusses had short stocks and were not designed to be fired from the shoulder like a musket

33. Blackbeard could use his heavy musket to fire on the enemy or to hit them in a fight

34. The resulting intertribal Musket Wars encompassed over 600 battles between 1801 and 1840, killing 30,000–40,000 Māori.

35. 23 Not a bough waved, not the gleam of a musket - barrel betrayed the presence of our foes.

36. In contemporary Europe, infantry were equipped with a musket, while in the Swedish army, every third man had a pike.

37. The Bayonet transformed the musket from a medium to long range weapon into one effective at close range as well

38. Blunderbuss definition, a short musket of wide bore with expanded muzzle to scatter shot, bullets, or slugs at close range

39. Davy Crockett Tie Clip, Embossed Design, Musket, Powder Horn, Old West, Folk Hero, King of the Wild Frontier, Tennessee Representative ShellyisVintage

40. Gluck was armed with an incredibly heavy musket, a single-shot museum piece with an octagonal barrel and a smooth bore.

41. • Matchlock musket made in Suhl-Henneberg, Thuringia, 1600-1620; and bandoleer probably made in Styria, 17th century; Joanneum Graz, Landeszeughaus.

42. But it is Day-Lewis who dominates everything as he races around, long locks flowing and trusty musket in tow.

43. The flash of guns and long lines of musket fire could be seen in bright relief against the blue and cloudless sky.

44. Bayonets include .303 SMLE Bayonet, Martini-Henry Bayonet, Enfield Bayonet, Snider Bayonet, Brown Bess Bayonet, Musket Bayonet, Sten Bayonet and many more antique English Bayonets.

45. Arquebus Summer Barleywine An Arquebus was a primitive firearm which came into use in the 15th Century, and was a predecessor to the musket and rifle

46. A carabinier (also sometimes spelled Carabineer or carbineer) is in principle a soldier armed with a carbine. A carbine is a shorter version of a musket or rifle

47. Blunderbusses were typically very short, with barrels under two feet (60 cm) in length, at a time when a typical musket barrel was over three feet (90 cm) long

48. Beall of Company I, 10th Mississippi Infantry Regiment with Bayoneted musket, with two stars in case Abstract/medium: 1 photograph : quarter-plate ambrotype, hand-colored ; 12.6 x 10.4 cm (case)

49. 1 photograph : ninth-plate tintype, hand-colored ; 7.3 x 6.3 cm (case) Photo, Print, Drawing [Unidentified soldier in Union uniform with Bayoneted musket and scabbard] digital file from original item

50. The major problem with plug Bayonets was that when attached they made it impossible to fire the musket, requiring soldiers to wait until the last possible moment before a melee to fix the bayonet