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‖ tophaike|təʊˈfeɪk|
[ad. vulgar Turkish tüfek (literary tufeng) musket: cf. Pers. tufak blow-pipe.]
A (Turkish) musket.
1813Byron Giaour viii, Though too remote for sound to wake In echoes of the far tophaike (note ‘Tophaike’, musquet). 1816Sporting Mag. XLVII. 285 Their coming was announced by the firing of their tophaikes. 1882Armstrong Garl. Greece, Last Sortie 268 At my new-found foe I sprung, And clutched with both my hands the raised tophaike. |