What is "carbines"

Usage examples of "carbines".

I confounded them and seized these, their horses, as well as two carbines and these other trappings you see.

Beyond, the others were taking in the clannsmen who, concealed by hillocks or any other cover they could find, were firing their carbines at the huge spaceship.

Suddenly a few shots ring out upon the frosty air from the carbines of the advance.

Ryan noticed a pair of crimson-uniformed sec guards with their M-16 carbines carried at port arms.

A couple of men held the horses while the rest of the party dismounted and waited, carbines at the ready, for further orders.

Ryan guessed, from some hoarded M-16 carbines and a variety of self-mades and patch-ups, which was the usual kind of weaponry that was found in the frontier wilderness of Deathlands.

The French officer suddenly jerked, as though waking to find a nightmare real, and shouted at his men to forsake their cannons and snatch their carbines from racks beside the embrasures.

Alvborg looked at his men, who sat huddled together against the cold, clutching their carbines in gloved hands.

Orders were barked and the soldiers on guard duty stood swiftly to attention, carbines on shoulders.

With the carbines they use breaking down every other round, they need all the help they can get.

Peter exclaimed when he saw the Winchesters instead of the Springfield carbines that had been ordered.