Synonyms for carbine

Grammar : Noun

Spell : kahr-been, -bahyn

Phonetic Transcription : ˈkɑr bin, -baɪn

Définition of carbine

Origin : short rifle, 1580s, from French carabine (Middle French carabin), used of light horsemen and also of the weapon they carried, of uncertain origin, perhaps from Medieval Latin Calabrinus "Calabrian" (i.e., "rifle made in Calabria"). A less-likely theory (Gamillscheg, etc.) connects it to Old French escarrabin "corpse-bearer during the plague," literally (probably) "carrion beetle," said to have been an epithet for archers from Flanders.

As in musket : noun gun

Example sentences :

A chorus of night cries awoke to the sharp crack of a carbine.
Extract from : « The Law-Breakers » by Ridgwell Cullum

At last, by a sudden jerk, he succeeded in wresting his carbine from him.
Extract from : « The Fortune of the Rougons » by Emile Zola

But even if you had missed I had him covered with my carbine.
Extract from : « The Night Riders » by Ridgwell Cullum

As they approached the tan-vats he espied a carbine lying on the ground.
Extract from : « Three Years in the Federal Cavalry » by Willard Glazier

Lately, too, we have gone through a course of carbine instruction.
Extract from : « The Traitors » by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

He took me to a small room, where I saw my carbine and pistols.
Extract from : « The Memoires of Casanova, Complete » by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

The carbine had been fired; perhaps the bullet was in his brain.
Extract from : « The Long Roll » by Mary Johnston

I has a forty-four carbine, a forty-five rifle and a thirty rifle.
Extract from : « Left on the Labrador » by Dillon Wallace

Then he snapped down the visor of his helmet, unslung his carbine, and presented it.
Extract from : « A Slave is a Slave » by Henry Beam Piper

But all they had to depend upon now was the Major's carbine.
Extract from : « In Search of the Castaways » by Jules Verne

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