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Definition: HARQUEBUSE

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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].

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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Date "Harquebuse" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Definition: HARQUEBUSE

Part of SpeechDefinition
Noun1. 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].

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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Date "HARQUEBUSE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)