harquebus
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harquebuses
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The Pilgrim gained a foothold with his harquebus.
From Time Magazine Archive
At the Admiral's command the harquebus and crossbow men laid their weapons down, though watchful eye was kept.
From 1492 by Mary Johnston
Well, a lot of Terrans in the Year Zero had never seen a suit of armor, or an harquebus, or even a tinder box or a spinning wheel.
From Naudsonce by H. Beam Piper
For that we might have trouble, four harquebus men and four crossbows were going.
From 1492 by Mary Johnston
Near the skeleton lay a helmet of hammered brass and a corroded breastplate of steel while at one side was a long, straight sword in its scabbard and an ancient harquebus.
From Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Spanish had crossbows, harquebuses and armor- clad horses, none of which the natives had ever seen.
From Time Magazine Archive
Besides harquebuses for the soldiers, there were many kinds of cannon with strange names, such as culverins, falconets, sakers, serpentines, and rabinets.
From Introductory American History by Henry Eldridge Bourne
We would mount there her two guns and provide an arsenal with powder, shot, harquebuses and bows.
From 1492 by Mary Johnston
The soldiers now began to take aim with harquebuses and 'hand-guns', and to erect mounds nearer the town as cover for their marksmen.
From The Strange Story Book by Mrs. Andrew Lang
There were "demilances" riding on great horses; gunners with harquebuses and wheel-locks; archers in white coats, bearing bent bows and sheafs of arrows; pikemen in bright corslets; and bill-men with aprons of mail.
From The Customs of Old England by F. J. (Frederick John) Snell
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