musket

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The Spaniard brought only 11 ships, some 450 men, 16 horses and a modest collection of cannons, crossbows and arquebuses, precursors to the musket.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025

Artefacts recovered from the battlefield in recent years have included lead musket balls and a shoe buckle believed to have belonged to a clan chief.

From BBC • Apr. 6, 2025

I would not have walked into a coffee shop with an AR-15 and expected the reactions I got for walking in with a musket, for one thing.

From Slate • May 8, 2024

There could be everyday military items like uniform buttons or musket balls.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 26, 2023

We found some pieces of metal that could have been musket balls from the Revolutionary War.

From "Shouting at the Rain" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt