| 单词 | matchlock musket |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmatchlock musket 1. A gun having a matchlock (sense 2). More fully matchlock gun, matchlock musket. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > small-arm > [noun] > musket musket1574 snaphancec1575 muscado1592 firelock1625 matchlock1638 fusee1661 squirt-fire1678 fusil1680 jingal1761 Brown Bess1785 tophaike1813 Tower musket1832 jezail1838 trumpet-pipe1844 bundook1886 needle-musket1898 1638 Court Rec. 8 Mar. in J. H. Trumbull Public Rec. Colony Connecticut (1850) I. 15 Every military man is to have..one pounde of match if his peece be a match locke. 1672 King Charles II Warrant 2 Apr. One matchlocke musquet, with a collar of bandaliero. 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 99 Matchlocks, Swords, and Javelins. 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 139 The Infantry [consists] of Gentues, with Match-Lock Muskets. 1795 A. Anderson Narr. Brit. Embassy China 71 Others are armed with match-locks of a very rusty appearance. a1854 H. Reed Lect. Brit. Poets (1857) viii. 289 The clumsy matchlock musket of olden time. 1875 H. J. S. Maine Lect. Early Hist. Inst. x. 290 The battle was waged out of Court with sword and matchlock. 1882 Cent. Mag. Nov. 72/2 The colonists..deposited there awkward matchlock guns in dry vats for security. 1915 J. Buchan Salute to Adventurers xi. 166 They could shoot, too, with their rusty matchlocks. 1987 Target Gun Aug. 36/2 Flintlock Brown Besses from Waterloo..and matchlocks from Japan..all appeared, in action. < as lemmas |
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