Synonyms for musket

Grammar : Noun

Spell : muhs-kit

Phonetic Transcription : ˈmʌs kɪt

Définition of musket

Origin : "firearm for infantry" (later replaced by the rifle), 1580s, from Middle French mousquette, also the name of a kind of sparrow-hawk, diminutive of mosca "a fly," from Latin musca (see midge). The hawk so called either for its size or because it looks speckled when in flight. Early firearms often were given names of beasts (cf. dragoon), and the equivalent word in Italian was used to mean "an arrow for a crossbow." The French word was borrowed earlier into English (early 15c.) in its literal sense of "sparrow-hawk."

noun gun

Example sentences :

In spite of the wound he seized the musket and forcibly wrested it from our hero.
Extract from : « Brave and Bold » by Horatio Alger

Those are not Sniders they carry--don't know that kind of musket.
Extract from : « The Leopard Woman » by Stewart Edward White

All those who could bear a musket were gone to meet the invasion.
Extract from : « In the Valley » by Harold Frederic

There are six thousand men of a sort in the camp, but not one in five carries a musket.
Extract from : « Micah Clarke » by Arthur Conan Doyle

You were not hit by the bullet from the redcoat's musket, Dick?
Extract from : « The Dare Boys of 1776 » by Stephen Angus Cox

A jerk of the whole ship was followed by a report like that made by a musket.
Extract from : « Homeward Bound » by James Fenimore Cooper

Before he could regain it, a Spaniard charged at him with a musket, and threw him back.
Extract from : « The Pirate and The Three Cutters » by Frederick Marryat

Take up your musket at once, or you will have me to deal with!
Extract from : « The Downfall » by Emile Zola

I may carry my musket in the ranks, but I'll not surrender my birthright!'
Extract from : « Lord Kilgobbin » by Charles Lever

But Warren still declined, took a musket, and fought with the men.
Extract from : « The Siege of Boston » by Allen French

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