musketry

plural musketries · alternative obsolete musquetry

1. countableuncountableThe technique of using small arms such as muskets.

   "Nickle will never make a reliable shot," confided Mr. Carrados to the little band of paralysed listeners. "He always takes sight too low—fault of British army musketry training. […]"

   1934, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], The Bravo of London

2. countableuncountableA collection of muskets or musketeers.
3. countableuncountableMusket fire.

   A heavy trampling of steps—clashing as if of swords—several rounds of musketry—screams—shouts—rose in the direction of the court.

   1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, pages 251–252

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   Nor was this less ominous than the rattle of musketry, for it suggested but a single solution to the little band of rescuers—that the illy garrisoned village had already succumbed to the onslaught of a superior force.

   1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 132