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1. (n.) musket
a heavy, large-caliber smoothbore gun for infantry soldiers: predecessor of the modern rifle.
Etymology: (1580–90; < MF mousquet < It moschetto crossbow bolt, later, musket, orig. kind of hawk =mosch(a) fly (< L musca) +-etto -et)
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1. (noun) musket
a muzzle-loading shoulder gun with a long barrel; formerly used by infantrymen
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1. (noun) musket
the male of the sparrow hawk
2. (noun) musket
a species of firearm formerly carried by the infantry of an army. It was originally fired by means of a match, or matchlock, for which several mechanical appliances (including the flintlock, and finally the percussion lock) were successively substituted. This arm has been generally superseded by the rifle
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Sense: an old type of gun once carried by foot-soldiers.
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 Afrikaans: musket |
 Arabic: بُنْدِقِيَّه من طِراز قَد |
 Bulgarian: мускет |
 Brazilian: mosquete |
 Czech: mušketa |
 German: die Muskete |
 Danish: musket |
 Greek: μουσκέτο (είδος όπλου) |
 Spanish: mosquete |
 Estonian: musket |
 Farsi: تفنگ فتيله اى |
 Finnish: musketti |
 French: mousquet |
 Hebrew: רוֹבֶה מוסקֶט |
 Hindi: बन्दूक |
 Croatian: mušketa |
 Hungarian: muskéta |
 Indonesian: senapan |
 Icelandic: framhlaðningur |
 Italian: moschetto |
 Japanese: マスケット銃 |
 Korean: 머스킷총 |
 Lithuanian: muškieta |
 Latvian: muskete |
 Malay: senapang lantak |
 Dutch: musket |
 Norwegian: muskett |
 Polish: muszkiet |
 Persian: تفنگ فتيله اى |
 Pashto: یو ډول پخوانی ټوپک |
 Portuguese: mosquete |
 Romanian: muschetă |
 Russian: мушкет |
 Slovak: mušketa |
 Slovenian: mušketa |
 Serbian: musketa |
 Swedish: musköt |
 Thai: ปืนคาบศิลา |
 Turkish: piyade tüfeği |
 Taiwanese: 毛瑟槍 |
 Ukrainian: мушкет |
 Urdu: پیدل سپاہی کی ہلکی بندوق |
 Vietnamese: súng hỏa mai |
 Chinese: 旧式步枪，滑膛枪 |
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