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单词 buxerry
释义

buxerryn.

Forms: Also bucksaree, bucksary, buxarry.
Etymology: Of uncertain etymology; Col. Yule (Appendix) suggests that it may be Hindi baksārī ‘native of Buxar’.
Obsolete exc. Historical.
A matchlock-man.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > armed man > [noun] > one armed with or using firearm > one bearing or using handgun > one armed with firelock, matchlock, etc.
firelock1630
buxerry1748
matchlock-man1785
percussionist1817
1748 in J. Long Sel. Rec. Govt. relating to Bengal (1869) 1 Having sent Ensign McKion with..one hundred and fifty buxerries.
1757 Clive in Grant Hist. India I. ix. 52/2 Leaving only a few Europeans with 200 new-raised Bucksarees to guard our camp.
1850 Broome Rise & Progress Bengal Army Buxarries were nothing more than Burkandaz, armed and equipped in the usual native manner.
c1880 J. Grant Hist. India I. viii. 45/1 1,500 Bucksaries, or native matchlockmen.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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