单词 | musket arrow |
释义 | > as lemmasmusket arrow musket arrow n. now historical a short arrow discharged from a musket. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > arrow > [noun] > arrow discharged from musket arrow1581 musket arrow1590 1590 in K. R. Andrews Eng. Privateering Voy. to W. Indies (1959) 75 6 dussen mussket arowes. 1603 C. Heydon Def. Iudiciall Astrol. xi. 254 He taketh his words to be musket arrowes..and his breath gunpowder. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Musket arrows, used in our early fleets, and for conveying notices in 1815. 1966 C. G. Cruickshank Elizabeth's Army (ed. 2) vii. 115 An odd missile that never really caught on was the musket arrow. This was a metal arrow eight or ten inches long. The rear end was screwed into a plug which was rammed against the powder charge in the musket. < as lemmas |
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