单词 | musket |
释义 | musket /mus"kit/, n. 1. a heavy, large-caliber smoothbore gun for infantry soldiers, introduced in the 16th century: the predecessor of the modern rifle. 2. the male sparrow hawk, Accipiter nisus. [1580-90; < MF mousquet < It moschetto crossbow arrow, later musket, orig. kind of hawk, equiv. to mosch(a) fly ( < L musca) + -etto -ET] |
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