Tower musket

noun

A long firearm, notably the Brown Bess flintlock and the Pattern 1853 Enfield, inspected, produced, or marked by the Tower of London armory.

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nounTower musket (plural Tower muskets)

plural Tower muskets

  1. A long firearm, notably the Brown Bess flintlock and the Pattern 1853 Enfield, inspected, produced, or marked by the Tower of London armory.

    I also bought two tower muskets to satisfy my crew, who insisted on the necessity of being armed against attacks of pirates; and with spices and a few articles of food for the voyage nearly my last doit was expended.

    1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 113
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