musket

noungun

Synonyms for musket

noun gun

Word Origin & History

"firearm for infantry" (later replaced by the rifle), 1580s, from Middle French mousquette, also the name of a kind of sparrow-hawk, diminutive of mosca "a fly," from Latin musca (see midge). The hawk so called either for its size or because it looks speckled when in flight. Early firearms often were given names of beasts (cf. dragoon), and the equivalent word in Italian was used to mean "an arrow for a crossbow." The French word was borrowed earlier into English (early 15c.) in its literal sense of "sparrow-hawk."

Example Sentences for musket

In spite of the wound he seized the musket and forcibly wrested it from our hero.

Those are not Sniders they carry--don't know that kind of musket.

All those who could bear a musket were gone to meet the invasion.

There are six thousand men of a sort in the camp, but not one in five carries a musket.

You were not hit by the bullet from the redcoat's musket, Dick?

A jerk of the whole ship was followed by a report like that made by a musket.

Before he could regain it, a Spaniard charged at him with a musket, and threw him back.

Take up your musket at once, or you will have me to deal with!

I may carry my musket in the ranks, but I'll not surrender my birthright!'

But Warren still declined, took a musket, and fought with the men.

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