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Arquebusier

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Ar`que`bus`ier
n.1.A soldier armed with an arquebus.
Soldiers armed with guns, of whatsoever sort or denomination, appear to have been called arquebusiers.
- E. Lodge.
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These might include the doctor who performed the autopsy on a murder victim, psychologists who evaluated the mental capacity of the accused, a chemist if the case involved poisoning, an architect who drew a plan of the crime scene, or an expert arquebusier who testified about the use of firearms.
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The Turkish leaders consoled themselves with the specious argument that a man trained in the use of a Turkish composite bow could loose off thirty arrows in the time it took an arquebusier to load and fire once.
Just peace and the asymmetric threat: national self-defense in ... by Novak, Michael / Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy
 
 
 
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