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Definition of Hagbut

Hagbut
Hagbut Hag"but, n. [OF. haquebute, prob. a corruption of D. haakbus; haak hook + bus gun barrel. See Hook, and 2d Box, and cf. Arquebus.] A harquebus, of which the but was bent down or hooked for convenience in taking aim. [Written also haguebut and hackbuss.]

Meaning of Hagbut from wikipedia

- The arquebus has at times been known as the harquebus, harkbus, hackbut, hagbut, archibugio, haakbus, schiopo, sclopus, tüfenk, tofak, matchlock, and firelock...
- fowler; 2 Portuguese bases; 4 hagbuts a croke; 8 small hagbuts a croke; 1 broken sling; 1 broken port piece; 1 small broken hagbut; 40 bows. Lowestoft; 2 iron...
- pieces; 4 slings; a quarter sling; 9 double bases and 4 single bases; and a hagbut. Handarms included 12 bills, 7 moorish pikes, and three spears. There were...
- have survived. He was succeeded by French smiths, who began manufacturing hagbuts (another type of firearm) in the 1550s, and by 1541 the castle had a stock...
- sufficiently to speik, reid and wryte Englische" Prohibition from carrying hagbuts or pistols out of their own houses, or shooting at deer, hares, or fowls...
- the reservoir in 1893 recovered two br**** guns, referred to as "double hagbuts", and measuring around 1 m (3 ft) long with a bore of around 25 millimetres...
- great guns and six falcons on carriages with wheels, thirty three bronze hagbut hand-guns and four iron culverins, with ammunition and powder and ramrods...
- double bases; 54 shrimp bases; 114 privy bases; 2 robinets; and 73 br**** hagbuts. The guns were in four positions; the Old Man; High Boulogne; Base Boulogne;...
- accosted by John Gordon of Ardlogy and a party of men with pistolets and hagbuts. In the early 17th century Clan Gordon had a number of alliances by marriage...
- was also in the castle garrison, a soldier armed with a handgun called a "hagbut". When one of King's party, Alexander Stewart of Garleis, challenged Grange...