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musket 音标拼音: [m'ʌskət] n. 步枪 步枪 musket n 1: a muzzle- loading shoulder gun with a long barrel; formerly used by infantrymenMusket \ Mus" ket\, n. [ F. mousquet, It. moschetto, formerly, a kind of hawk; cf. OF. mousket, moschet, a kind of hawk falcon, F. mouchet, prop., a little fly ( the hawk prob. being named from its size), fr. L. musca a fly. Cf. { Mosquito}.] [ Sometimes written also { musquet}.] 1. ( Zool.) The male of the sparrow hawk. [ 1913 Webster] 2. A species of firearm formerly carried by the infantry of an army. It was originally fired by means of a match, or matchlock, for which several mechanical appliances ( including the flintlock, and finally the percussion lock) were successively substituted. This arm has been completely superseded by the rifle, and is now only of historical interest. [ 1913 Webster PJC] 21 Moby Thesaurus words for " musket": automatic, blowgun, blowpipe, firearm, flamethrower, gat, gun, handgun, heater, peashooter, piece, pistol, repeater, revolver, rifle, rod, sawed- off shotgun, shooting iron, shotgun, six- gun, six- shooter
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