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hackbutter, hagbutter arch. and Hist.|ˈhækbətə(r), ˈhæg-|
Also 6 haquebuter, Sc. hagbutar (-bitter).
[f. hackbut + -er: see prec.]
A soldier armed with a hackbut; a harquebusier.
1544–8in Archæol. XXII. 69 There shall be 150 haquebuters, who shall have good haquebuts. 1548Patten Exped. Scotl. in Arb. Garner III. 76 Captain of 200 Hackbutters on horseback. 1549Compl. Scot. Epist. 6 He renforsit the toune vitht victualis, hagbutaris, ande munitions. a1627Hayward Edw. VI (1630) 24 Of the English one Spanish hackbutter was hurt. 1777W. Nimmo Stirlingsh. xii. 292 The passage..was lined with an hundred Hagbutters. 1888Trans. Glasgow Archæol. Soc. I. 283 Edinburgh had furnished the hagbutters of his army. |