What is "arquebuses"

Usage examples of "arquebuses".

Good Venture were placed, came down while they were at breakfast to inquire how many arquebuses there were on board.

I have been out here two winters and have learnt to skate, so I will accompany the party, the other nine arquebuses with ammunition we will hand over to you.

Spaniards were on their way had been given, three hundred men with arquebuses were ferried across the channel, and were disembarked on to the ice.

Breaking up as they approached, their assailants came dashing along at a rapid pace, discharged their arquebuses into the close mass of the Spaniards, and then wheeled away at the top of their speed, reloaded and again swept down to fire.

Unsteady as they were on their feet the recoil of their heavy arquebuses frequently threw them over, and it was impossible to take anything like an accurate aim at the flying figures that passed them at the speed of a galloping horse.

When their partners had placed the rests firmly, the gunners rested the long barrels of their strangely shaped arquebuses in the forks, blew on their matches, aimed, and fired a ragged volley.

Fairley in multi-shooting arquebuses, cannon, stronger gunpowder, transport, vehicles, and this new, simple, inexpensive ignition system have rendered my army well-nigh invincible.

Apparently Lieutenant Smythe, who commanded the small royal garrison still manning the Fort Whyffler defenses, had been similarly impressed, since the party had been trailed at a discreet distance by a dozen pikemen and half that number of men armed with the seven-shot arquebuses, their matches smoking.

All over the verandah and the full length of the corridor, the black soldiers were squatting or sitting on the floor, loading breech cups for swivel guns and horn or wooden load tubes for calivers and arquebuses, cleaning weapons, reaming touchholes, and checking the actions of wheel-locks.

A few had firearmscalivers, arquebuses, and long dagsbut most carried three spearsa long, broad-bladed one and two much shorter ones with smaller headsa war club or axe of some kind, and a large shield almost as tall as they were.

Take all of the swivels you want, them and small arms of any description and in any quantitycalivers, arquebuses, dags, pistols, pole-arms, edge weapons, armor, anything.

Then a pair of armored and wheeled tortugaswhich siege devices had apparently been rafted down the river unseen by any sentries on the dark, drizzly nighthad broken down a stretch of the already fire-weakened palisades and entered the fortaleza, and the armed whites and indios contained in them had opened fire with light arquebuses, pistoles, probably some swivel guns, and quite possibly one or two old-fashioned multi-barreled volley guns.

There were an awful lot of arquebuses, pistols, arrows and just plain rocks all ready to come their way.

The sailors, too, were running to the timber-balk barrier with arquebuses, pistols and cutlasses.