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har·que·bus

(här′kə-bəs, -kwə-) also ar·que·bus (är′-)

A heavy portable matchlock gun invented during the 1400s. Also called hackbut.

[Obsolete French harquebuse, from Old French, alteration of Middle Dutch hakebus : hake, hook; see keg- in Indo-European roots + busse, gun (from Late Latin buxis, box; see box¹).]

harquebus

(ˈhɑːkwɪbəs) ,

harquebuse

harquebuss

n, pl -buses or -busses

(Firearms, Gunnery, Ordnance & Artillery) variant forms of arquebus

har•que•bus

(ˈhɑr kwə bəs)

n., pl. -bus•es.

small-caliber long gun operated by a matchlock or wheel-lock mechanism, dating from about 1400.

[1525–35; < Middle French harquebusche (with intrusive -r-) < Middle Dutch hākebusse=hāke hook + busse gun (literally, box) < Late Latin buxis, for Latin buxus box¹]

har`que•bus•ier′ (-kwə bəˈsɪər) n.

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harquebus - an obsolete firearm with a long barrel

arquebus, hackbut, hagbut

muzzle loader - an obsolete firearm that was loaded through the muzzle

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harquebus

[ˈhɑːkwɪbəs] N (Hist) → arcabuz m

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Everywhere were swords, pistols, cuirasses, and arquebuses, and it was plain that as soon as his gout was better Monsieur de Bouillon would give a pretty tangle to the enemies of the parliament to unravel.

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the din of all the great double petards of the Saint-Jean, the discharge of twenty arquebuses on supports, the detonation of that famous serpentine of the Tower of Billy, which, during the siege of Paris, on Sunday, the twenty-sixth of September, 1465, killed seven Burgundians at one blow, the explosion of all the powder stored at the gate of the Temple, would have rent his ears less rudely at that solemn and dramatic moment, than these few words, which fell from the lips of the usher, "His eminence, Monseigneur the Cardinal de Bourbon.

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Now and then during the night horses had galloped at a smart pace over the Buytenhof, the heavy tramp of the patrols had resounded from the pavement, and the slow matches of the arquebuses, flaring in the east wind, had thrown up at intervals a sudden glare as far as to the panes of his window.