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Webster 1913 Edition
Arquebuse
{
Ar′que-bus
,Ar′que-buse
}(?; 277)
, Noun.
A sort of hand gun or firearm a contrivance answering to a trigger, by which the burning match was applied. The musket was a later invention.
[Written also
harquebus
.] Webster 1828 Edition
Arquebuse
'ARQUEBUSE
,Definition 2025
arquebuse
arquebuse
English
Noun
arquebuse (plural arquebuses)
- A sort of trigger-based handgun or firearm, by which a burning match was applied, from which the musket was derived.
French
arquebuse
Noun
arquebuse f (plural arquebuses)
- arquebus (firearm)
Derived terms
- arquebuse à croc
- arquebuse à rouet
- porte-arquebuse
- arquebuser
- arquebusier
- arquebusade
Verb
arquebuse
- first-person singular present indicative of arquebuser
- third-person singular present indicative of arquebuser
- first-person singular present subjunctive of arquebuser
- third-person singular present subjunctive of arquebuser
- second-person singular imperative of arquebuser