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单词 harquebut
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harquebutn.

Brit. /ˈ(h)ɑːkwᵻbət/, U.S. /ˈhɑrk(w)əbət/
Forms: 1500s harguebut, 1500s harquebutt, 1500s harquebutte, 1500s–1600s 1800s– harquebut; Scottish pre-1700 harquebut, pre-1700 hergbut.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French harquebute.
Etymology: < Middle French harquebute (1521; compare earlier haquebute hackbut n.), alteration of harquebuse (see arquebus n. and compare hackbush n.), probably after buter to aim (at a target), to take aim (see butt v.1). Compare Old Occitan arcabuta (1536). Compare earlier hackbut n.
Now archaic and historical.
An early type of portable firearm; = arquebus n. 1. Cf. hackbut n.
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hackbush1484
hackbut1531
arquebus1532
hackbut of crochet1533
hackbut of croc1543
bowse1556
hackbusher1556
harquebut1562
arquebuserc1570
arquebus à croc1572
monk's gun1846
monk's arquebus1870
1562 T. Kemys Let. 20 Oct. in P. Forbes Full View Public Trans. Reign Q. Elizabeth (1741) II. 127 Hurte in the right syde of his brest with a harquebut.
?1565 Anno Secundo et Tertio Edouardi Sexti (new ed.) c. 14 sig. D.vv Some libertie to shote in Handgunnes, Haques and Harquebuts.
1601 E. Aggas tr. P. L'Estoile True Disc. Occurr. Warres of Savoy sig. Aiij The Musquets and Harquebuts charged.
1663 R. Young Breviary Later Persecutions 179 The Frenchmen, who in discharging their volley of Harquebuts, killed a Son of Patrick Murray.
1801 F. Grose Mil. Antiq. (new ed.) I. v. 151 They would find a long bow and sheaf of arrows, or a harquebut, in every cafe.
1872 Belgravia May 329 It was not an uncommon thing for..harquebuts, and escopettes to be loaded at the breech in those days.
1908 Victoria Hist. County of Warwick II. 445 The establishment of magazines for the harquebuts, or muskets.
1992 W. F. Keegan People who discovered Columbus ix. 218 Smaller swivel guns called harquebuts, which could be mounted on the ship's boats.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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