What is "musketoon"

Usage examples of "musketoon".

But Joe soon discovered that with its short thick barrel, its heavy stock and enormous bullets, the musketoon could be used with extraordinary accuracy when fired in the manner of a howitzer, aimed in the air rather than at the target so the bullets traversed a high arc and struck from above.

Joe practiced with his musketoon in the mountains mastering the trajectories of a howitzer, careful to let himself be seen only from far away.

Ireland, gone even the old cavalry musketoon, buried now in the ruins of an abandoned churchyard along with the tiny hope that someday he might return to reclaim it.

There an elderly carter told him the plan for his escape was ready, adding that the Black and Tans had tortured someone on the west coast and discovered their old enemy of the musketoon was in Cork.

Cork was for me lugging around a monstrous old weapon, a modified musketoon it was, U.

While those mountains were shrinking I was growing, I was taking those soggy heaps and putting them inside me and getting bigger, and that abandoned churchyard where I buried the old musketoon in the rain, that mud was consecrated by me and nobody else.

He keeps the old musketoon at his feet and claims it was his cannon in his private wars against the white man.

They could not reach the palisades in the face of the withering fire from the musketoon, so they constructed a movable palisade of trees, behind which marched the entire band of warriors.

His weapon of choice became the musketoon, a short-barreled weapon that fired a lethal spray of lead pellets.

I mind leaving you on the ground for dead and kissing your cheek, the while I was near my own end with a musketoon ball in my ribs.

Kalvan noted that several wore three-quarter lobster armor and each held a heavy-barreled musketoon slung across his back as well as a brace of pistols.

In the flashes of gunfire he saw Jackson standing on the bulwark carefully aiming a musketoon, methodically aiming and firing it and passing it down to be reloaded, while another loaded one was handed up to him.

I wore a flat red hat then, and a green jacket, and shoes that had buckles on them, and I stayed up in the hills of southern Ireland with my old musketoon, talking to no man, hiding during the day and on the run through all the hours of darkness.

He drank of the rest of a beaker of Musketoon and slapped the king of clubs face down in the center of the table.

The invaders stopped short and Cranston with them, though he was careful to stay in the center of the cluster to have the benefit of human shields should the musketoons go off.