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musket

DEFINITIONS OF: musket

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

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blunderbuss
a short musket of wide bore with a flared muzzle
culverin
a medieval musket
fusil
a light flintlock musket
matchlock
an early style of musket; a slow-burning wick would be lowered into a hole in the breech to ignite the charge
Type of:
muzzle loader
an obsolete firearm that was loaded through the muzzle
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