Definitions for harquebuses

harquebuses har·que·bus

Spelling: [hahr-kwuh-buh s]
IPA: /ˈhɑr kwə bəs/

Harquebuses is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 25 points.

You can make 408 anagrams from letters in harquebuses (abeehqrssuu).

Definitions for harquebuses

noun

  1. any of several small-caliber long guns operated by a matchlock or wheel-lock mechanism, dating from about 1400.

Origin of harquebuses

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

Examples for harquebuses

Of these weapons there were two sorts, the musket and the harquebus.

At the Admiral's command the harquebus and crossbow men laid their weapons down, though watchful eye was kept.

The Caliver was a kind of short musket or harquebus, fired by a matchlock, and from its lightness did not require a rest.

Improvements in the harquebus and musket, as it got to be called later on, continued to be developed from time to time.

For that we might have trouble, four harquebus men and four crossbows were going.

Lupin thought of the Sire de Tancarville and the sentry who had killed him with a shot from his harquebus.

Here's a fine blade, now, and a musket—give me a harquebus; I could shoot once, but my arm is all of a wamble now.

Well, a lot of Terrans in the Year Zero had never seen a suit of armor, or an harquebus, or even a tinder box or a spinning wheel.

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