What is "hackbut"

Usage examples of "hackbut".

It was over swiftly, the harsh crackling of hackbut fire and a rain of bullets through the dawn light, followed by screams and the battle snouts of the shadeen.

His multi-shot hackbuts won or all but won at least two full-scale battles for English arms, and his large-bore breech-loading rifled cannon are on the way to revolutionizing naval warfare, not to even mention the advances in other, less warlike, directions that his endless experiments are turning out, like that light but sturdy and comfortable springed carriage there, that Buddy Webster came down here in.

The pistols lay in leather cases, the hackbuts with damascened stocks lay each with its pile of balls.

His multishot hackbuts won or all but won at least two full-scale battles for English arms, and his large-bore breechloading rifled cannon are on the way to revolutionizing naval warfare, not to even mention the advances in other, less warlike, directions that his endless experiments are turning out.

His multishot hackbuts won or all but won at least two full-scale battles tor English arms, and his large-bore breechloading rifled cannon are on the way to revolutionizing naval warfare, not to even mention the advances in other, less warlike, directions that his endless experiments are turning out.