Musketry

Definition: Musketry

Musketry

Noun

1. Musketeers and their muskets collectively.

2. The technique of using small arms (especially in battle).

Date "musketry" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

Etymology: Musketry \Mus"ket*ry\, noun. [French expression mousqueterie; compare to Italian expression moschetteria.]. (Websters 1913)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Arms	Small arms; musket, musketry, firelock, fowling piece, rifle, fusil, caliver, carbine, blunderbuss, musketoon, Brown Bess, matchlock, harquebuss, arquebus, haguebut; pistol, postolet; petronel; small bore; breach-loader, muzzle-loader; revolver, repeater; Minis rifle, Enfield rifle, Flobert rifle, Westley Richards rifle, Snider rifle, Martini-Henry rifle, Lee-Metford rifle, Lee-Enfield rifle, Mauser rifle, magazine rifle; needle gun, chassepot; wind gun, air gun; automatic gun, automatic pistol; escopet, escopette, gunflint, gun-lock; hackbut, shooter, shooting iron , six-shooter, shotgun; Uzzi, assault rifle, KalashnikoVerb:
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Musketry

English words defined with "musketry": Running fire. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	A System for Conducting Musketry Instruction Prepared and Printed by (reference) Aids to Musketry for Officers & NCOs (reference) (more book examples)
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Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	The insurgents made no response to this musketry, to spare their ammunition.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Musketry" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Musketry" is used about 21 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	21	76,261

Expressions using "musketry": a fire of musketry ♦ school of musketry. Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "musketry"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		mushqetarë, mushqeta, qitje me mushqetë. (various references)

Bulgarian		стрелково изкуство, стрелба с мускети, мускетарска войска. (various references)

German		musketiere, musketen (musketries). (various references)

Greek		τουφεκισμόσ (military execution, shooting, shot), τουφεκιά (rifle shot). (various references)

Hebrew		רובאות. (various references)

Hungarian		lövészet (firing, gunner, gunnery, marksmanship, rifle shooting, sharpshooting, shoot, shooting). (various references)

Italian		moschetteria, fucileria. (various references)

Manx		muscadys. (various references)

Pig Latin		usketrymay

Portuguese		mosquetaria, instrução de tiro, exercícios de tiro. (various references)

Romanian		muschete, flinte, arta tragerii cu muscheta. (various references)

Russian		стрелковая подготовка, ружейный огонь, мушкетеры. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		muskete, paljba iz muskete. (various references)

Spanish		mosquetes. (various references)

Swedish		musketerare. (various references)

Turkish		tüfek atışı. (various references)

Ukrainian		стрілецька справа, рушничний вогонь. (various references)

Vietnamese		thuật bắn súng trường loạt đạn súng hoả mai, thuật bắn súng hoả mai, loạt đạn súng trường. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Musketry" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Mouskouri, Munkberry, Muskerry. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "musketry" (pronounced 'Mus"ket*ry'): Abbreviatory, Abditory, Abjuratory, Ablutionary, Absolutory, Absolvatory, Acceleratory, Acclamatory, Accusatory, Accustomary, Acetary, Acetimetry, Acidimetry, Acoumetry, Actino-chemistry, Actinometry, Actuary, Additionary, Additory, Adhortatory, Adiaphory, Adjuratory, Adjutory, Admaxillary, Adminiculary, Admissory, Admonitory, Adry, Adstrictory, Adulatory, Advisory, Advocatory, Aerometry, Affirmatory, Alary, Alchemistry, Alcoholometry, Alcoometry, Aldermanry, Aleatory, Aleberry, Alimentary, Alkalimetry, Allegory, Alleviatory, Allodiary, Allusory, Almonry, Almry, Altimetry. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-k-m-r-s-t-u-y"
	-1 letter: murkest, turkeys.
	-2 letters: estrum, musket, muster, surety, turkey, tusker, tuyers.
	-3 letters: kumys, kytes, merks, mures, murks, murky, muser, musky, musty, muter, mutes, rusty, rykes, serum, smerk, strum, suety, terms, treks, treys, trues, turks, tuyer, tyers, tykes, tyres, yerks, yeuks, yurts.
	-4 letters: emus, erst, keys, kues, kyte, merk, mure, murk, muse, musk, must, mute, muts.
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