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Webster 1913 Edition
Harquebuse
{
Har′que-bus
Har′que-buse
}(här′kwē̍-bŭs)
, Noun.
[See
Arquebus
.] 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
.