musket

A smoothbore shoulder gun used from the late 1500s through the 1700s.

In falconry, an inferior kind of hawk; a sparrow-hawk. See eyas-musket.

A hand-gun for soldiers, introduced in European armies in the sixteenth century: it succeeded the harquebus, and became in time the common arm of the infantry.

The male of the sparrow hawk.

A species of firearm formerly carried by the infantry of an army. It was originally fired by means of a match, or matchlock, for which several mechanical appliances (including the flintlock, and finally the percussion lock) were successively substituted. This arm has been completely superseded by the rifle, and is now only of historical interest.

A species of firearm formerly carried by the infantry of an army. It was originally fired by means of a match, or matchlock, for which several mechanical appliances (including the flintlock, and finally the percussion lock) were successively substituted. This arm has been superseded by the rifle.

a muzzle-loading shoulder gun with a long barrel; formerly used by infantrymen