musket
[ muhs-kit ]
/ ˈmʌs kɪt /
noun
a heavy, large-caliber smoothbore gun for infantry soldiers, introduced in the 16th century: the predecessor of the modern rifle.
the male sparrow hawk, Accipiter nisus.
Origin of musket
1580–90; < Middle French
mousquet < Italian
moschetto crossbow arrow, later musket, orig. kind of hawk, equivalent to
mosch(a) fly (< Latin
musca) +
-etto
-et
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British Dictionary definitions for musket
musket
/ (ˈmʌskɪt) /
noun
a long-barrelled muzzle-loading shoulder gun used between the 16th and 18th centuries by infantry soldiers
Word Origin for musket
C16: from French
mousquet, from Italian
moschetto arrow, earlier: sparrow hawk, from
moscha a fly, from Latin
musca