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| Noun | 1. A firearm with match holder, trigger, and tumbler, made in the second half of the 15th century. the barrel was about forty inches long. A form of the harquebus was subsequently called arquebus with matchlock.[Websters]. | |
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Date "Harquebuse" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Noun | 1. A firearm with match holder, trigger, and tumbler, made in the second half of the 15th century. the barrel was about forty inches long. A form of the harquebus was subsequently called arquebus with matchlock.[Websters]. | |
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Date "HARQUEBUSE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |