musquet

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A form of musket — A kind of firearm formerly carried by the infantry of an army, originally fired by means of a match, or matchlock, for which several mechanical appliances (including the flintlock, and finally the percussion lock) were successively substituted; ultimately superseded by the rifle.

OriginFrench mousquet →
Scrabble 18
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Meanings

nounmusquet (plural musquets)

plural musquets

  1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of musket.

    Fig. 1. A matchlock musquet from the Tower of London.

    1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page xvi

Origin

  1. Frenchmousquet
  2. Englishmusquet

French mousquet

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