harquebus
[hahr-kwuh-buh s]
- any of several small-caliber long guns operated by a matchlock or wheel-lock mechanism, dating from about 1400.
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Origin of harquebus
1525–35; < Middle French harquebusche (with intrusive -r-) < Middle Dutch hākebusse, equivalent to hāke hook + busse gun (literally, box) < Late Latin buxis for Latin buxus box1
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Historical Examples
Of these weapons there were two sorts, the musket and the harquebus.
History of the United Netherlands, 1590-1599, Vol. III. CompleteJohn Lothrop Motley
For that we might have trouble, four harquebus men and four crossbows were going.
1492Mary Johnston
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.
With Drake on the Spanish MainHerbert Strang
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.
NaudsonceH. Beam Piper
Lupin thought of the Sire de Tancarville and the sentry who had killed him with a shot from his harquebus.
The Crystal StopperMaurice LeBlanc
harquebus
- a variant of arquebus
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