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单词 musketry
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Definition of musketry in English:

musketry

noun ˈmʌskɪtriˈməskətri
mass noun
  • 1Musket fire.

    the distant sound of musketry
    Example sentencesExamples
    • I did so and on the morning of the 27th, Sunday, I was awakened about 1/2 past 3 with musketry and cannon shots close by.
    • A crash of musketry followed, and when the smoke lifted there sat Washington, to the amazement of all, unharmed.
    • ‘Boys, do you hear that rattle of musketry and the roar of artillery? ‘he asked his soldiers.
    • That accomplished, we had to pass through an enfilading fire of musketry until we gained the peach orchard (at the northern base of Cemetery Hill).
    • Aerial shots of the beleaguered fort, with Mexican troops climbing scaling ladders, lit by flashes of musketry, are striking.
    1. 1.1 Soldiers armed with muskets.
      the Prussian musketry
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The Allies' superior musketry, with artillery support, eventually broke the French infantry which retreated in considerable disorder.
    2. 1.2 The art or technique of handling a musket.
      the rudiments of musketry
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Brent and I had seen to that when we refined her eye at musketry.
      • In 1841 he entered the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst, followed by a commission in the Grenadier Guards where he developed a special interest in musketry.
      • The days of a few weeks' drilling and musketry, then off to war, are long gone.
 
 

Definition of musketry in US English:

musketry

nounˈməskətrēˈməskətri
  • 1Musket fire.

    a terrible explosion of musketry
    Example sentencesExamples
    • ‘Boys, do you hear that rattle of musketry and the roar of artillery? ‘he asked his soldiers.
    • A crash of musketry followed, and when the smoke lifted there sat Washington, to the amazement of all, unharmed.
    • I did so and on the morning of the 27th, Sunday, I was awakened about 1/2 past 3 with musketry and cannon shots close by.
    • Aerial shots of the beleaguered fort, with Mexican troops climbing scaling ladders, lit by flashes of musketry, are striking.
    • That accomplished, we had to pass through an enfilading fire of musketry until we gained the peach orchard (at the northern base of Cemetery Hill).
    1. 1.1 Soldiers armed with muskets.
      the Prussian musketry
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The Allies' superior musketry, with artillery support, eventually broke the French infantry which retreated in considerable disorder.
    2. 1.2 The art or technique of handling a musket.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Brent and I had seen to that when we refined her eye at musketry.
      • The days of a few weeks' drilling and musketry, then off to war, are long gone.
      • In 1841 he entered the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst, followed by a commission in the Grenadier Guards where he developed a special interest in musketry.
 
 
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