单词 | musketoon |
释义 | musketoonn. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > armed man > [noun] > one armed with or using firearm > one bearing or using handgun > musketoon musketoon1638 musketooner1925 1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 232 Three hundred thousand horse, and seventy thousand good musquetoons. 1670 G. Havers tr. G. Leti Il Cardinalismo di Santa Chiesa ii. iii. 185 Forty Souldiers a horseback, drawn by order out of his Majesties Musquetoons. 2. A kind of musket with a short barrel and a large bore. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > small-arm > [noun] > musketoon musketoon1643 musketoon pistol1695 1643 in J. Stuart Extracts Presbytery Bk. Strathbogie (1843) xxiii I had in my hand a musketon of the wydest sort, charged with nynne balles of pistolets. 1650 R. Stapleton tr. F. Strada De Bello Belgico vi. 31 15 Supernumeraryes, armed with Musketoons, and Rests. 1663 Marquis of Worcester Cent. Names & Scantlings Inventions §67 A..way..for Musquettoons fastened to the Pummel of the Saddle so that a Common Trooper cannot misse to charge them, with twenty or thirty Bullets at a time, even in full Career. 1684 T. Otway Atheist ii. 13 Stand Centinel..with Musquetoons and Blunderbusses. 1706 Albany Fort Jrnl. in G. Williams Hudson's Bay Misc. (1975) 72/1 State of stores..16 musketoons. 1772 T. Simes Mil. Guide at Blunderbuss Blunderbuss is a short fire arm with a large bore... The shortest sort of them are called musquetoons. 1798 J. O'Keeffe Doldrum ii. i, in Dramatic Wks. IV. 492 Den did I not fire a brace of de double-barrel'd mousquetons, into de large looking glass over his head? 1800 in Spirit of Public Jrnls. (1801) 4 22 The construction of the musquetoon, or wall piece. 1843 H. W. Herbert Marmaduke Wyvil ii. 9 About the door clustered a group of privates, with their musketoons all unslung. 1889 A. Conan Doyle Micah Clarke xvii. 152 Your musquetoon should be sloped upon your shoulder. 1908 S. J. Weyman Wild Geese xi. 162 Two sturdy fellows..with musquetoons on their shoulders. 1938 ‘G. Orwell’ Homage to Catalonia iii. 42 The short Mauser, or mousqueton, really a cavalry weapon. 1970 P. O'Brian Master & Commander (new ed.) iii. 111 They each had maybe a dozen musketoons or patareroes on their sides. 1997 T. Pynchon Mason & Dixon xxxviii. 382 Mr. Knockwood comes from around the Bar whilst Mrs. Knockwood..heads for the Musketoon in the China-Cabinet. CompoundsΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > small-arm > [noun] > musketoon musketoon1643 musketoon pistol1695 1695 London Gaz. No. 3055/4 At his late Dwelling-House..are to be sold..Musketoons, and Musketoon Pistols. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1638 |
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