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M0496600 (mŭs′kĭt)n. A smoothbore shoulder gun used from the late 1500s through the early 1800s.

[French mousquet, from Italian moschetto, moschetta, a type of crossbow, musket, from moschetto, male sparrowhawk, bolt of a crossbow, from diminutive of mosca, fly (the male of the Eurasian sparrowhawk (Accipter nisus) being so called because it is smaller than the female), from Latin musca.]

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(ˈmʌskɪt) n (Firearms, Gunnery, Ordnance & Artillery) a long-barrelled muzzle-loading shoulder gun used between the 16th and 18th centuries by infantry soldiers[C16: from French mousquet, from Italian moschetto arrow, earlier: sparrow hawk, from moscha a fly, from Latin musca]

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(ˈmʌs kɪt)

n. a heavy, large-caliber smoothbore gun for infantry soldiers: predecessor of the modern rifle. [1580–90; < Middle French mousquet < Italian moschetto crossbow bolt, later, musket, orig. kind of hawk =mosch(a) fly (< Latin musca) + -etto -et]

Thesaurus

Noun

musket - a muzzle-loading shoulder gun with a long barrel; formerly used by infantrymenblunderbuss - a short musket of wide bore with a flared muzzleculverin - a medieval musketfusil - a light flintlock musketmatchlock - an early style of musket; a slow-burning wick would be lowered into a hole in the breech to ignite the chargemuzzle loader - an obsolete firearm that was loaded through the muzzle

Translations

旧式步枪滑膛枪

musket

(ˈmaskit) noun an old type of gun once carried by foot-soldiers. 旧式步枪，滑膛枪 ˌmuskeˈteer noun a soldier armed with a musket. 滑膛枪手

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see small armssmall arms,
firearms designed primarily to be carried and fired by one person and, generally, held in the hands, as distinguished from heavy arms, or artillery. Early Small Arms

The first small arms came into general use at the end of the 14th cent.
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a hand firearm with a matchlock.

The musket first appeared in the early 16th century in Spain and then in Germany, France, and Russia. It had a caliber of about 20 mm and weighed from 8 to 10 kg. Because of a powerful recoil, muskets were at first supplied only to select soldiers—the musketeers—who wore a leather pad on their shoulder when firing. Monopods (rests) were introduced to make firing muskets more comfortable. In the late 17th century muskets were replaced by flintlock rifles, at first in France and then in other countries. In Russia the term “musket” denoted flintlock rifles until the early 19th century.

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noun a muzzle-loading shoulder gun with a long barrel

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