harquebus
Americannoun
noun
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The Pilgrim gained a foothold with his harquebus.
From Time Magazine Archive
"They fighting with their great ordnance," writes Medina Sidonia, "and we with harquebus fire and musketry, the distance being very small."
From A History of Sea Power by Stevens, William Oliver
Here's a fine blade, now, and a musket—give me a harquebus; I could shoot once, but my arm is all of a wamble now.
From With Drake on the Spanish Main by Strang, Herbert
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 Burroughs, Edgar Rice
Later on, in the middle of the sixteenth century, we hear of the long-barrelled harquebus being used in Spain, and before the close of the century the muschite was in use in the English army.
From Broad-Sword and Single-Stick With Chapters on Quarter-Staff, Bayonet, Cudgel, Shillalah, Walking-Stick, Umbrella and Other Weapons of Self-Defence by Headley, Rowland George Allanson Allanson-Winn, Baron
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