car·bine (kär b n , -b n)n. A lightweight rifle with a short barrel. [French carabine, from Old French carabin, soldier armed with a musket, perhaps from escarrabin, gravedigger, from scarabee, dung beetle; see scarab.] |
carbine [ˈkɑːbaɪn]
n
1. (Military / Firearms, Gunnery, Ordnance & Artillery) a light automatic or semiautomatic rifle of limited range
2. (Military / Firearms, Gunnery, Ordnance & Artillery) Also called carabin carabine a light short-barrelled shoulder rifle formerly used by cavalry
[from French carabine, from Old French carabin carabineer, perhaps variant of escarrabin one who prepares corpses for burial, from scarabée, from Latin scarabaeus scarab]
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| Noun | 1. |  carbine - light automatic rifle rifle - a shoulder firearm with a long barrel and a rifled bore; "he lifted the rifle to his shoulder and fired" |
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