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hackbut
[ hak-buht ]
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Derived Forms
- ˌhackbutˈeer, noun
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Other Words From
- hack·but·eer [hak-b, uh, -, teer], noun
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Word History and Origins
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Example Sentences
Anthony Hackbut, of Boyne's Bank, had been giving himself up latterly to this fatal comparison.
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But the courageous Laird gave it over without shot of hackbut, and for his reward was caused to march upon foot to London.
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A kitchen jack leaned against a pyx, a republican sabre on a mediaeval hackbut.
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Better known is the band of 2000 hackbut-men which the Earl of Lincoln brought to Stoke in 1487.
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She belongs to old Hackbut of the Bank—the old porter, you know.
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