Definitions for musket
ˈmʌs kɪtmus·ket

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. musketnoun

   a muzzle-loading shoulder gun with a long barrel; formerly used by infantrymen

GCIDERate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. Musketnoun

   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 This arm has been completely superseded by the rifle, and is now only of historical interest.

WiktionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. musketnoun

   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 This arm has been superseded by the rifle.

   Soldier, soldier, won't you marry me, with your musket, fife and drum.

2. Etymology: mousquet, itself from moschetto, diminutive of mosca.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. MUSKETnoun

   Etymology: mousquet, Fr. mosquetto, Italian, a small hawk.

   1. A soldier’s handgun.

   Thou
   Wast shot at with fair eyes, to be the mark
   Of smoky muskets. William Shakespeare, All’s well that ends well.

   Practise to make swifter motions than any you have out of your muskets. Francis Bacon.

   They charge their muskets, and with hot desire
   Of full revenge, renew the fight with fire. Edmund Waller.

   He perceived a body of their horse within musket-shot of him, and advancing upon him. Edward Hyde.

   One was brought to us, shot with a musket-ball on the right side of his head. Richard Wiseman, Surgery.

   2.A male hawk of a small kind, the female of which is the sparrow hawk; so that eyas musket is a young unfledged male hawk of that kind. Thomas Hanmer

   Here comes little Robin. ——
   —— How now my eyas musket, what news with you. William Shakespeare.

   The musket and the coystrel were too weak,
   Too fierce the falcon; but above the rest,
   The noble buzzard ever pleas’d me best. Dryden.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Musket

   A musket is a muzzle-loaded long gun that appeared as a smoothbore weapon in the early 16th century, at first as a heavier variant of the arquebus, capable of penetrating heavy armor. By the mid-16th century, this type of musket went out of use as heavy armor declined, but as the matchlock became standard, the term musket continued as the name given for any long gun with a flintlock, and then its successors, all the way through to the mid-19th century. This style of musket was retired in the 19th century when rifled muskets (simply called rifles in modern terminology) became common as a result of cartridged breech-loading firearms introduced by Casimir Lefaucheux in 1835, the invention of the Minié ball by Claude-Étienne Minié in 1849, and the first reliable repeating rifle produced by Volcanic Repeating Arms in 1854. By the time that repeating rifles became common, they were known as simply "rifles", ending the era of the musket.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. musket

   A musket is a type of firearm that was used from the 16th to the 19th centuries. It is a long, generally shoulder-held weapon that shot bullets or spherical projectiles, loaded from the muzzle (hence known as a muzzle-loading gun). Muskets were typically used by infantry soldiers in warfare and for hunting. This firearm gradually evolved into the modern rifle.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Musketnoun

   the male of the sparrow hawk

2. Musketnoun

   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

3. Etymology: [F. mousquet, It. moschetto, formerly, a kind of hawk; cf. OF. mousket, moschet, a kind of hawk falcon, F. mouchet, prop., a little fly (the hawk prob. being named from its size), fr. L. musca a fly. Cf. Mosquito.]

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Musket

   A musket is a muzzle-loaded, smoothbore firearm, fired from the shoulder. Muskets were designed for use by infantry. A soldier armed with a musket had the designation musketman or musketeer. The musket replaced the arquebus, and was in turn replaced by the rifle. The term "musket" is applied to a variety of weapons, including the long, heavy guns with matchlock or wheel lock and loose powder fired with the gun barrel resting on a stand, and also lighter weapons with Snaphance, flintlock, or caplock and bullets using a stabilizing spin, affixed with a bayonet. 16th-century troops armed with a heavy version of the arquebus called a musket were specialists supporting the arquebusiers and pikemen formations. By the start of the 18th century, a lighter version of the musket had edged out the arquebus, and the addition of the bayonet edged out the pike, and almost all infantry became musketeers. In the 18th century, improvements in ammunition and firing methods allowed rifling to be practical for military use, and the term "rifled gun" gave way to "rifle". In the 19th century, rifled muskets became common which combined the advantages of rifles and muskets. About the time of the introduction of cartridge, breechloading, and multiple rounds of ammunition just a few years later, muskets fell out of fashion.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Musket

   mus′ket, n. any kind of smooth-bore military hand-gun: a male sparrow-hawk.—ns. Musketeer′, a soldier armed with a musket; Musketoon′, Musquetoon′, a short musket: one armed with a musketoon.—adj. Mus′ket-proof, capable of resisting the force of a musket-ball.—ns. Mus′ket-rest, a fork used as a support for the heavy 16th-century musket—also Croc; Mus′ketry, muskets in general; practice with muskets: a body of troops armed with muskets; Mus′ket-shot, the discharge of a musket, the reach of a musket. [O. Fr. mousquet, a musket, formerly a hawk—It. mosquetto—L. musca, a fly.]

Dictionary of Nautical TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. musket

   The regulation fire-arm for infantry and small-arm men. That of the English service, when a smooth bore, threw its bullet of about an ounce 250 yards with good effect; now, rifling has trebled its range, whilst breech-loading has done at least as much by its rapidity of fire.

Military Dictionary and GazetteerRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. musket

   (Fr. mousquet). The fire-arm for infantry soldiers, which succeeded the clumsy arquebuse, and has itself given way before the rifle (which see). The first muskets were matchlocks; after which came wheel-locks, asnaphans or snaphance muskets, and lastly percussion muskets, which were a vast improvement both for accuracy and lightness on all which had gone before. Compared, however, to the present rifle, the musket was a heavy, ugly, and ineffective weapon.

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. MUSKET

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Musket is ranked #145220 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Musket surname appeared 114 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Musket.
   
   97.3% or 111 total occurrences were White.

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1. • Muzzle Loader

How to pronounce musket?

1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

   British

   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

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   Natasha

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   Veena

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   Priya

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   Neerja

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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   Wendy

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   Fred

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of musket in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of musket in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of musket in a Sentence

1. Winfield Hancock, Gods and Generals, pg 128, paragraph 3:

   Sir, it is not God who will assemble us on the battlefield, nor position our troops, nor place the cannon, and it is not God who will aim the musket.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=musket
2. ^ GCIDE
   https://gcide.gnu.org.ua/?q=musket
3. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Musket
4. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=musket
5. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musket
6. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
7. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/musket
8. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=musket
9. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=musket
10. ^ Dictionary of Nautical Terms
    https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26000/pg26000-images.html#:~:text=musket
11. ^ Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
    https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/59563/pg59563-images.html
12. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
    https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html