The Collaborative International Dictionary
Arquebusier \Ar`que*bus*ier\, n. [F. arquebusier.] A soldier armed with an arquebus.
Soldiers armed with guns, of whatsoever sort or
denomination, appear to have been called arquebusiers.
--E. Lodge.
Wiktionary
n. a soldier armed with an arquebus
Usage examples of "arquebusier".
Foot formed a column on the left and a skirmish line of three mercenary arquebusier companies was out in front.
But on a sudden there was a great cry in the wood, and coming through the trees on all sides Spanish arquebusiers, a hundred strong at least, and negroes with them, who bade us stand or they would shoot.
Several Harphaxi shot flew over the mercenary arquebusiers to the left of the First Foot and rolled back down into their ranks.
Hostigi regiments stopped short of the soft ground, and the arquebusiers and musketeers of the three lines let fly almost seven hundred strong.
Harphaxi mercenary cavalry made a brief feint toward the left of the Hostigi force, but the arquebusiers let fly, their volley felling two score of horses and emptying a few saddles.
A hundred mounted arquebusiers brought up the rear, followed by a hundred horse-archer auxiliaries.
As they approached the assailants halted, and the arquebusiers came forward and took their post in line, to cover by their fire the advance of the storming parties.
The arquebusiers poured their fire into them as they crossed the moat, and then fell back behind their comrades, who were armed with pike and sword.
Already the wounds were repairing themselves, but the arquebusiers were reloading with panicked haste, not daring to go near the dying creature.
He takes a demi-tercio with him, fifty Hebrian arquebusiers and sword-and-buckler men.
He had a tolerably large escort: two hundred Hebrian arquebusiers and swordsmen and eighty heavy cavalry armed with lances and paired matchlock pistols.
When the last artillerymen were behind the line of arquebusiers he gave the order.
Merduks had arquebusiers up on the battlements firing blindly into the Torunnan ranks.
The arquebusiers dropped their weapons and drew their sabres, if they had time.
Torunnan cuirassiers, perhaps three hundred of them, and several thousand sword-and-buckler men and arquebusiers intermingled, struggling against immense odds to extend their flanks.