What is "carabines"

Usage examples of "carabines".

I have, in fact, welded the turrets for them Everyone around him carried carabines, and probably felt so calm and relaxed because of that Indeed, it's part of human nature to be thankless and indifferent, Yura thought bitterly.

In the dining room corner fur jackets, battery belts, boots, carabines heaved in a disorderly pile.

The agents of police were armed with carabines, with bludgeons, swords and poignards.

And being no stranger to the art of war, I gave him a description of cannons, culverins, muskets, carabines, pistols, bullets, powder, swords, bayonets, battles, sieges, retreats, attacks, undermines, countermines, bombardments, sea fights, ships sunk with a thousand men, twenty thousand killed on each side, dying groans, limbs flying in the air, smoke, noise, confusion, trampling to death under horses' feet, flight, pursuit, victory.

And being no stranger to the art of war, I gave him a description of cannons, culverins, muskets, carabines, pistols, bullets, powder, swords, bayonets, battles, sieges, retreats, attacks, undermines, countermines, bombardments, sea-fights.