单词 | buxerry |
释义 | † buxerryn. Obsolete exc. Historical. A matchlock-man. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1748 |
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