Musket
['mʌskɪt]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a muzzle-loading shoulder gun with a long barrel; formerly used by infantrymen.
校對:谢尔比--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The male of the sparrow hawk.
(n.) A species of firearm formerly carried by the infantry of an army. It was originally fired by means of a match, or matchlock, for which several mechanical appliances (including the flintlock, and finally the percussion lock) were successively substituted. This arm has been generally superseded by the rifle.
校對:克劳斯
解釋/意思:
n. any kind of smooth-bore military hand-gun: a male sparrow-hawk.—ns. Musketeer′ a soldier armed with a musket; Musketoon′ Musquetoon′ a short musket: one armed with a musketoon.—adj. Mus′ket-proof capable of resisting the force of a musket-ball.—ns. Mus′ket-rest a fork used as a support for the heavy 16th-century musket—also Croc; Mus′ketry muskets in general; practice with muskets: a body of troops armed with muskets; Mus′ket-shot the discharge of a musket the reach of a musket.
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例句/造句/用法:
- As it was, she merely stipulated, If you bring the boy back with his head blown to bits by a musket, don't look to me to put it together again. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- I ate them by two or three at a mouthful, and took three loaves at a time, about the bigness of musket bullets. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- While I was at West Point the tactics used in the army had been Scott's and the musket the flint lock. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- I had scarcely left when a musket ball entered the room, struck the head of the sofa, passed through it and lodged in the foot. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- A musket is a more expensive machine than a javelin or a bow and arrows; a cannon or a mortar, than a balista or a catapulta. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- On the contrary, the cannon was the predecessor of the musket and its successors. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- The only proviso that Justinian made was that the women, on their arrival, should keep out of musket-shot and not risk their lives. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- It seems that the musket had been run over by a handcar, which slightly bent the long barrel, but not sufficiently for an amateur like Fox to notice. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- I require little sleep, and it pleases me on a fine night to wander for an hour or two with my musket about the hollow. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- I should not mind taking my turn to watch the mill one of these summer nights, armed with your musket, Joe. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- A splashing and a tramping; a hurrahing, uproaring, musket-volleying; the truest segment of Chaos seen in these latter Ages! 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- As the arquebus succeeded the bow and arrow, so the musket, a smooth and single-barrel muzzle-loader with a flint-lock and a wooden ramrod, succeeded the arquebus. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Other men enter the arena on foot, armed with red flags and explosives about the size of a musket cartridge. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- The ammunition carried with them was two hundred rounds for musket and gun. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- As the balls are made to slip into the barrels easily, they can be loaded as readily as the common musket: and they will carry three times the distance, with much more certainty. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- Spain had 10,000 muskets to modernize by the same system, and the breech-block attachments were made at Ilion. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- The night was so dark that the men could not distinguish one from another except by the light of the flashes of their muskets. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Hears his number called, hears himself challenged, hears the rattle of the muskets, hears the orders 'Make ready! 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- He imitated the action of a man's being impelled forward by the butt-ends of muskets. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- The soldiers had their muskets, but no ammunition, while there were tons of it close at hand. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- This was accomplished for the first time in America at the Remington plant, in making Harper’s Ferry muskets. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- The infantry with their muzzle-loading muskets could not keep up a steady enough fire to wither determined cavalry before it charged home. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Deep ditch, single drawbridge, massive stone walls, eight great towers, cannon, muskets, fire and smoke. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- Vot for should any man vont fore to see great many muskets, all put straight togeter fore to do noting? 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- Muskets with straight grooves are said to have been used in the fifteenth century. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- The soldiers thought I wanted to leave the city, and they sprang up and barred the way with their muskets. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Muskets were thrust into the carriage: Your passports? 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The infantry under General Taylor was armed with flint-lock muskets, and paper cartridges charged with powder, buck-shot and ball. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- His men resumed their muskets and fell in. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- The wooden walls of the navies disappeared as a defence after the conflict between the Monitor and the Merrimac, and muzzle-loading muskets became things of the past. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
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