musket

[ muhs-kit ]
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noun
  1. a heavy, large-caliber smoothbore gun for infantry soldiers, introduced in the 16th century: the predecessor of the modern rifle.

  2. the male sparrow hawk, Accipiter nisus.

Origin of musket

1
1580–90; <Middle French mousquet<Italian moschetto crossbow arrow, later musket, originally kind of hawk, equivalent to mosch(a) fly (<Latin musca) + -etto-et

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musket

/ (ˈmʌskɪt) /


noun
  1. a long-barrelled muzzle-loading shoulder gun used between the 16th and 18th centuries by infantry soldiers

Origin of musket

1
C16: from French mousquet, from Italian moschetto arrow, earlier: sparrow hawk, from moscha a fly, from Latin musca

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