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

  • 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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