harquebus

[ hahr-kwuh-buhs ]

noun

, plural har·que·bus·es.

1. arquebus.

harquebus

/ ˈhɑːkwɪbəs /

noun

1. a variant of arquebus

Example Sentences

At the Admiral's command the harquebus and crossbow men laid their weapons down, though watchful eye was kept.

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Improvements in the harquebus and musket, as it got to be called later on, continued to be developed from time to time.

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The harquebus-a-croc, a weapon almost exactly similar, threw small cross-bar shot "to cut Sails and Rigging."

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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.

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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.

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