harquebus
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The Pilgrim gained a foothold with his harquebus.
From Time Magazine Archive
For that we might have trouble, four harquebus men and four crossbows were going.
From 1492 by Johnston, Mary
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
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 Piper, H. Beam
But when the four harquebus men set up their iron rests, fixed the harquebuses, and firing cut leaves and twigs from the same tree, there was a louder crying.
From 1492 by Johnston, Mary
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 Bourne, Henry Eldridge
"Not muskets, nor harquebuses, but anything that will dint a blow."
From With Drake on the Spanish Main by Strang, Herbert
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 Snell, F. J. (Frederick John)
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 Lang, Mrs. Andrew
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