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Musket (1867–1885) was an English -bred Thoroughbred racehorse and a Leading sire in Australia and New Zealand.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Posed him in a uniform with a musket in front of a wax image of General Washington. ▪ Somewhere, and not so very far off, there was a musket fight. ▪ The musket firing between skirmishers at times was very brisk. ▪ The muskets ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"firearm for infantry" (later replaced by the rifle), 1580s, from Middle French mousquette , also the name of a kind of sparrow-hawk, diminutive of mosca "a fly," from Latin musca (see midge ). The hawk so called either for its size or because it looks ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Musket \Mus"ket\, n. [F. mousquet, It. moschetto, formerly, a kind of hawk; cf. OF. mousket, moschet, a kind of hawk falcon, F. mouchet, prop., a little fly (the hawk prob. being named from its size), fr. L. musca a fly. Cf. Mosquito .] (Zo["o]l.) The male ...
Usage examples of musket.
Pangle stood beside him, and theirs was the proud and nervous pose men struck when having ambrotypes made at the start of the war, though instead of rifle musket and Colt pistol and bowie knife, Stobrod and Pangle held fiddle and banjo before them as defining implements.
Groping behind into the basket, the balloonist pulled out a musket and, before Hassan could even react to the sight, fired a load of shot that ripped Iman across the throat and chest.
Their mouths were dry from biting into the cartridges, their lips were flecked with unburned powder, and sweat had carved clean rivulets down their faces which were blackened by the smoke and smuts from the powder exploding in their musket pans.
Once a man even reached the Chesaux de Frise, he swept at the sabre blades with a musket, bellowing defiance, and then he was hit by an unseen French infantryman and he fell, twisting like a rag doll, down the slope and the French jeered him and poured fire down.
More frenchmen came from the village to bolster the attack, then a splintering deluge of rifle and musket fire flashed from the stony outc opsjust above the blood reased slope.
Suddenly a single musket shot thudded out in the darkness ahead and, without waiting for the order, the column reined in.
It will put such a panic into Messieurs the Sansculottes that within ten days Hoche will have received every musket and every sabre they can muster.
Sent shallop to head of harbor with mattocks and spades, as desired by those ashore, the seamen taking their muskets also.
He glanced sharply at Fergus, but then shouldered his musket and hurried after his companions.
The second men of the allied skirmishing pairs fired, but the voltigeurs were too numerous and their musket fire was almost continuous and the red, green and brown jackets were falling back.
Ahead of the column the sound of the skirmishing grew in intensity as the voltigeurs closed the range and opened on the riflemen with their muskets.
There was some skirmishing, small outbreaks of musket fire, the feeling out of two great armies close together.
He snatched the next loaded musket that one of his gun boys handed him, and cocked the hammer, then ducked under the swaying body of the wagon.
No man on board the Isis would dare aim a musket at Stoker for fear of hitting her.
I observed at Ternate that many of the men have muskets, and the sound of firearms would therefore in no way alarm them.