Definitions for musket

musket mus·ket

Spelling: [muhs-kit]
IPA: /ˈmʌs kɪt/

Musket is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 90 anagrams from letters in musket (ekmstu).

Definitions for musket

noun

  1. a heavy, large-caliber smoothbore gun for infantry soldiers, introduced in the 16th century: the predecessor of the modern rifle.
  2. the male sparrow hawk, Accipiter nisus.

Origin of musket

1580-90; Middle French mousquet Italian moschetto crossbow arrow, later musket, orig. kind of hawk, equivalent to mosch(a) fly (Latin musca) + -etto -et

Examples for musket

I may carry my musket in the ranks, but I'll not surrender my birthright!'

Take up your musket at once, or you will have me to deal with!

In spite of the wound he seized the musket and forcibly wrested it from our hero.

You were not hit by the bullet from the redcoat's musket, Dick?

There are six thousand men of a sort in the camp, but not one in five carries a musket.

Those are not Sniders they carry--don't know that kind of musket.

Before he could regain it, a Spaniard charged at him with a musket, and threw him back.

A jerk of the whole ship was followed by a report like that made by a musket.

But Warren still declined, took a musket, and fought with the men.

All those who could bear a musket were gone to meet the invasion.

Word Value for musket
Scrable

12

Words with friends

14

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