📖 Definitions of "Arquebus"
verb
- 1
To shoot with an arquebus.
noun
- 1
An obsolete matchlock firearm.
- 2
A portable gun, varying in size from a small cannon to a musket. When used in the field it was supported upon a tripod or trestle.
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| hagbutnoun | (obsolete) An arquebus, a firearm with a long barrel. |
| harquebusnoun | A portable gun, varying in size from a small cannon to a musket. When used in the field it was supported upon a tripod or trestle. |
| hackbutnoun | Obsolete form of arquebus. |
| blunderbussnoun | An old style of muzzleloading firearm and early form of shotgun with a distinctive short, large caliber barrel that is flared at the muzzle, therefore able to fire scattered quantities of nails, stones, shot, etc. at short range. |
| rovenoun | The act of wandering; a ramble. |
| trebuchetnoun | A medieval siege engine consisting of a large pivoting arm heavily weighted on one end. |
| loose | Not fixed in place tightly or firmly. |
| dribnoun | (obsolete) A drop. |
| shootnoun | The emerging stem and embryonic leaves of a new plant. |
| bulletnoun | A projectile, usually of metal, shot from a gun at high speed. |
| bowsenoun | A carouse; a drinking bout; a booze. |
| indartnoun | (archaic, transitive) To pierce as if with a dart. |
| dartnoun | A small object with a pointed tip at one end and feathers at the other, which is thrown at a target in the game of darts. |
| bang offverb | (transitive, informal) To fire (a weapon or a shot); to ejaculate. |
| shotnoun | The result of launching a projectile or bullet. |
| pistolnoun | (loosely) A handgun |
| shoot upverb | (intransitive, sometimes figurative) To grow taller or larger rapidly. |
| plugnoun | (electricity) A pronged connecting device which fits into a mating socket, especially an electrical one. |
| slingshootverb | (informal, rare) Propel or launch with or as if with a slingshot. |
| draw the longbowverb | (archaic) To tell tall tales. |
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