carbine
pronunciation
How to pronounce carbine in British English:
UK [ˈkɑ:baɪn]
How to pronounce carbine in American English:
US [ˈkɑrbaɪn]
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- Noun:
- light automatic rifle
Word Origin
- carbine (n.)
- short rifle, 1580s, from French carabine (Middle French carabin), used of light horsemen and also of the weapon they carried, of uncertain origin, perhaps from Medieval Latin Calabrinus "Calabrian" (i.e., "rifle made in Calabria"). A less-likely theory (Gamillscheg, etc.) connects it to Old French escarrabin "corpse-bearer during the plague," literally (probably) "carrion beetle," said to have been an epithet for archers from Flanders.
Example
- 1. I grabbed my carbine , aimed and pulled the trigger .
- 2. The marines will be armed with close quarter weapons such as the m4 carbine and sniper rifles with a range of 2 km .
- 3. The last time I was here I wore desert camouflage and carried an m4 carbine as a sergeant in the u. s. army 's second infantry division .
- 4. Caps also recalls when , driving into paris in a jeep -- and sure that he was miles ahead of anyone else -- he pulled up at the ritz and found hemingway 's driver standing guard at the entrance , a carbine slung over his shoulder , while hemingway was at the bar .