单词 | musketade |
释义 | † musketaden. Obsolete. 1. An attack with muskets; heavy musket fire. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > use or operation of small arms > [noun] > of musket > discharge of muskets musketry1611 musketade1649 musketading1865 1649 in A. Peterkin Rec. Kirk Scotl. (1838) I. 572 Forced to receive all the musketades of Cromwells infantrie. 1655 R. Flecknoe Ten Years Trav. 12 Your young Gallants..talk of nothing but Rampards and Parapats, Musquetads, Estramacons, and Canonads. 1865 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia VI. xx. vii. 199 Broglio truly has burst out into enormous cannonade, musketade, and cavalry-work. 2. A wound inflicted by a musket shot. rare. ΚΠ 1667 R. Flecknoe Damoiselles a la Mode iii. iv. 64 I'm sure I've good reason to remember it, for I receiv'd this Musquetad there,—pray Ladies vouchsafe to feel here. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < |
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