tophaiken.
/təʊˈfeɪk/ A (Turkish) musket.
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1813 Ld. Byron Giaour (ed. 3) 9 Though too remote for sound to wake In echoes of the far tophaike (note ‘Tophaike’, musquet).
1816 Sporting Mag. 47 285 Their coming was announced by the firing of their tophaikes.
1882 G. F. Armstrong Last Sortie in Garland from Greece 268 At my new-found foe I sprung, And clutched with both my hands the raised tophaike.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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