Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A fork used as a prop to support the heavy musket in use in the sixteenth century. Also called
croc .
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Examples
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He will never come within the sign of it, the sight of a cassock, or a musket-rest again.
Every Man in His Humor Ben Jonson 1605
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