Arquebus
[ɑ:kwibәs]
Definition
(n.) Alt. of Arquebuse
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Examples
- Among ancient fire-arms the principal ones were the arquebus, also bombardelle, and the blunderbuss. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- King Henry VIII of England, he of the many wives, had a match-lock arquebus of this type dated 1537. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- 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. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
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