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Light musket
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fusil
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Word definitions for fusil in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fusil \Fu"sil\, a. [L. fusilis molten, fluid, fr. fundere, fusum, to pour, cast. See Fuse , v. t.] Capable of being melted or rendered fluid by heat; fusible. [R.] ``A kind of fusil marble'' --Woodward. Running or flowing, as a liquid. [R.] ``A ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 (context heraldiccharge English) A bearing of a rhomboidal figure, resembling a spindle in shape, longer than a heraldic lozenge. 2 (context historical English) A light flintlock musket. Etymology 2 a. 1 (context obsolete English) Capable ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Fusil may refer to: Fusil, a light flintlock musket used by a fusilier Fusil (heraldry) , a heraldic ordinary similar to a lozenge Gerald Fusil , creator of the Raid Gauloises adventure race
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a light flintlock musket
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
flintlock musket, 1670s, from French fusil "musket" (see fusilier ). Originally in English as distinguished from the matchlock variety.
Usage examples of fusil.
She and the rest bore calivers, arms much like fusils, but with somewhat shorter though thicker stocks and more slender barrels.
Toi, par exemple, en prenant ton grand couteau, Pagliuccella en prenant son grand fusil, et moi en prenant mon grand sabre, chacun de nous enfin en prenant quelque chose et en marchant contre eux.
The assorted weapons- the battered swords, lances, pitchforks, truncheons and even a few rusty fusils - that so many of them carried bore testimony to th equality of their determination, if not its source.
Like the Spaniards themselves, the Irish seemed to prefer to make use of lance or spear, ax and sword, saving fusils, carbines, and pistols for emergencies, and the blacksmith symphony was deafening even at a distance.
They were the city militia, armed with fusils and carbines, and dressed in loose red trousers and plastic cuirasses as slick and cloudily transparent as ice.
El lector recordará que me cercaron, que tiré al aire un tiro de fusil y que tomaron la descarga por una suerte de trueno mágico.
So I watched them ride away, father and Richard in scarlet surcoats and bearing the scarlet shields with the three silver badgers of the Branthwaites, their followers in a motley collection of surcoats, some scarlet, some azure and hastily stitched with the Percy emblem (the five golden fusils joined in fess), most jacketed in leather or in cloth unadorned.
Heralds have not omitted this order or imitation thereof, while they Symbollically adorn their Scuchions with Mascles, Fusils, and Saltyrs, and while they dispose the figures of Ermins, and vaired coats in this Quincuncial method.