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Definition of harquebus

harquebus
Arquebus Ar"que*bus, Arquebuse Ar"que*buse (?; 277), n. [F. arquebuse, OF. harquebuse, fr. D. haak-bus; cf. G. hakenb["u]chse a gun with a hook. See Hagbut.] A sort of hand gun or firearm a contrivance answering to a trigger, by which the burning match was applied. The musket was a later invention. [Written also harquebus.]
Harquebus
Harquebus Har"que*bus, Harquebuse Har"que*buse, n. [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.

Meaning of harquebus from wikipedia

- referred to a hand cannon. The arquebus has at times been known as the harquebus, harkbus, hackbut, hagbut, archibugio, haakbus, schiopo, sclopus, tüfenk...
- relic from the time when the Guard, and not the Warders, carried the harquebus. Paradoxically, the Yeoman Warders wear like the Yeomen of the Guard a...
- harquebusiers were characterised by the use of a type of carbine called a "harquebus". In England, harquebusier was the technical name for this type of cavalry...
- Soto Atahualpa (POW) Strength 106 infantry 62 cavalry four cannons 12 harquebuses 3,000–8,000 guards Casualties and losses 1 slave dead; one wounded 2...
- on "suitable horses".: 73  barracks moved to St James's Palace issued harquebus This Household Ordinance is the first to mention regulations for the Yeomen...
- roughly 80 years by the time Bartolomeo Beretta got the big order for 185 harquebus barrels from the doge of Venice in 1526, which is the listed 'official'...
- the prototype of the petronel. The petronel is a compromise between the harquebus and the pistol. Early petronels date back to the end of the 14th century...
- Worldwide) Abus howitzer (Turkish) Arquebus, caliver, hackbut, harkbus, harquebus (European) Bajozutsu pistol (****anese) Basilisk cannon (European) Baton...
- longest Barrel, vis. from 51⁄2 foot to 6; with an indifferent Bore, under Harquebus: Tho' for different Occasions they shou'd be of different Sorts, and Sizes...
- engignour, meaning a constructor of military engines such as trebuchets, harquebuses, longbows, cannons, catapults, ballistas, stirrups, armour as well as...