| 单词 | queen's arm |
| 释义 | > as lemmasqueen's arm queen's arm n. (frequently with capital initials) U.S. (now historical) a type of musket dating from the reign of Queen Anne and commonly used in colonial America and later by American frontiersmen. ΚΠ 1836 Family Mag. May 97/1 Rifles cracked, and queen's arms roared in arithmetical progression, till all was one tremendous, booming thunder. 1848 J. R. Lowell Biglow Papers 1st Ser. Notices 8 The ole queen's arm thet gran'ther Young Fetched back from Concord busted. 1898 A. M. Earle Home Life in Colonial Days iii. 56 The favorite resting-place for the old queen's-arm or fowling-piece was on hooks over the kitchen fireplace. 1941 F. F. Van de Water Reluctant Republic i. ii. 35 The guns that had been imported from the lower settlements were smooth-bore firelocks, the old ‘Queen's arm’ of the Indian wars. 1994 L. K. Newell & V. T. Avery Mormon Enigma (ed. 2) iii. 50 His father proudly gave him a Queen's Arm musket to complete the outfit. < as lemmas |
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