Definitions for carbines

carbines car·bine

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

Carbines is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 494 anagrams from letters in carbines (abceinrs).

Definitions for carbines

noun

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

Origin of carbines

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 carbines

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for carbines
Scrable

11

Words with friends

14

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