What is "fusils"

Usage examples of "fusils".

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.