musket
pronunciation
How to pronounce musket in British English:
UK [ˈmʌskɪt]
How to pronounce musket in American English:
US [ˈmʌskɪt]
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- Noun:
- a muzzle-loading shoulder gun with a long barrel; formerly used by infantrymen
Word Origin
- musket
- musket: see mosquito
- musket (n.)
- "firearm for infantry" (later replaced by the rifle), 1580s, from Middle French mousquette, also the name of a kind of sparrow-hawk, diminutive of mosca "a fly," from Latin musca (see midge). The hawk so called either for its size or because it looks speckled when in flight. Early firearms often were given names of beasts (compare dragoon, also falcon, a kind of cannon mentioned by Hakluyt), and the equivalent word in Italian was used to mean "an arrow for a crossbow." The French word was borrowed earlier into English (early 15c.) in its literal sense of "sparrow-hawk."
Example
- 1. The weapon at hand was a single-shot musket .
- 2. Take not a musket to kill a butterfly .
- 3. This revolutionary war musket , donated by mr vincent ludwig .
- 4. According to singh , the medicine man " once killed three tigers with a musket . And ate them . He says it tastes very strong . Stinky . "
- 5. The musket ball cluster 's dark matter , the hot gas , and the individual galaxies are strongly separated from each other because they behave differently during a cluster collision .