Musket



GRE 蓝宝

解释

GRE 红宝书

• n. 旧式步枪
• ［英］ n. 旧式步枪 ( a type of gun used in former times)
• ［类］ daguerreotype : photograph / musket : firearm ( 早期银板相片是老相片 / 早期步枪是老枪炮)

Webster Collegiate

noun

• Etymology: Middle French mousquet, from Old Italian moschetto small artillery piece, sparrow hawk, from diminutive of mosca fly, from Latin musca — more at midge
• Date: circa 1587
• a heavy large-caliber muzzle-loading usually smoothbore shoulder firearm; broadly a shoulder gun carried by infantry

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