† demi-hakedemi-haquen.
Obsolete exc. Historical.
A firearm used in the 16th cent.; a smaller kind of hake n.4 or hackbut n. Also called half-haque, half-hagg.
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1541 Act 33 Hen. VIII c. 6 No person..shall shote in anie crossebowe, handgunne, hagbut or demy hake.
c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 33 Hagbutis of croche, half haggis, culuerenis.]
1581 W. Lambarde Eirenarcha (1588) iv. iv. 477 If any person have..used or kept..any hagbut or demyhake.
1801 J. Strutt Glig-gamena Angel-ðeod ii. i. 52 In addition to the hand~guns, I meet with other instruments of like kind..namely demy hags, or hag butts.
1834 Penny Cycl. II. 373/1 The demihaque was a kind of long pistol, the butt-end of which was made to curve so as almost to become a semicircle.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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