Definitions for carbine

carbine car·bine

Spelling: [kahr-been, -bahyn]
IPA: /ˈkɑr bin, -baɪn/

Carbine is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 234 anagrams from letters in carbine (abceinr).

Definitions for carbine

noun

  1. a light, gas-operated semiautomatic rifle.
  2. (formerly) a short rifle used in the cavalry.

Origin of carbine

1595-1605; earlier carabine Middle French: small harquebus, weapon borne by a carabin a lightly armed cavalryman, compared with (e)scarabin gravedigger for plague victims (Provençal, akin to

Examples for carbine

He took me to a small room, where I saw my carbine and pistols.

As you can see on your screens, this young soldier is trying to strangle me with the barrel of his carbine.

Washington pointed to Brown, who was kneeling beside him reloading his carbine, and said, “This is Osawatomie.”

A chorus of night cries awoke to the sharp crack of a carbine.

At last, by a sudden jerk, he succeeded in wresting his carbine from him.

Will he get his carbine free before I reach him, or can I kill him first?

But even if you had missed I had him covered with my carbine.

As they approached the tan-vats he espied a carbine lying on the ground.

Also, by carrying an M-4 carbine, everybody knew I was carrying something that could stitch even U.S. body armor.

Lately, too, we have gone through a course of carbine instruction.

Word Value for carbine
Scrable

11

Words with friends

14

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