Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A heavy portable matchlock gun invented during the 1400s.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An old form of hand-firearm.
- noun A harquebusier.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A firearm with match holder, trigger, and tumbler, made in the second half of the 15th century. The barrel was about forty inches long. A form of the harquebus was subsequently called
arquebus with matchlock .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
obsolete matchlock firearm.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an obsolete firearm with a long barrel
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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It was also typical that the prosecutor would have enlisted someone else to deliver it, one of the lads who regarded Arkady as ancient and as unpredictable as a loaded harquebus.
Three Stations : An Arkady Renko Novel Martin Cruz Smith 2010
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Malinalli had not yet finished translating these last words when the discharge of a harquebus signaled the beginning of the slaughter.
MALINCHE Laura Esquivel 2007
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Without the mastery of the language, his weapons were useless; it would be like using a harquebus as a club instead of firing it.
MALINCHE Laura Esquivel 2007
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Ruby had taken the relic piece — more relative to the harquebus than to the current fashion in rifles — and hunted wild turkey and deer through the winter, jerking the venison by the fire like an Indian.
Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003
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Raising the harquebus, Sulu fired and was almost knocked down by the heavy weapon.
Shadow Lord Laurence Yep 2000
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Raising the harquebus, Sulu fired and was almost knocked down by the heavy weapon.
Shadow Lord Laurence Yep 2000
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Raising the harquebus, Sulu fired and was almost knocked down by the heavy weapon.
Shadow Lord Laurence Yep 2000
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Ruby had taken the relic piece -- more relative to the harquebus than to the current fashion in rifles -- and hunted wild turkey and deer through the winter, jerking the venison by the fire like an Indian.
Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 1997
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I also see a modern U. S.-made rifle, an AK-47, or a harquebus from the times of the Spanish conquistadors.
Mexican Newspaper Interviews Fidel Castro Part IX Comments on Insurgencies 1995
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Mary could see Riccio grab on to the bedpost in the bedroom, only to have his fingers clubbed with the stock of a harquebus.
Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987
chained_bear commented on the word harquebus
See usage/definition on harquebuss.
October 9, 2008
yarb commented on the word harquebus
Also arquebus.
October 9, 2008