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单词 carbine
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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024
car•bine /ˈkɑrbin, -baɪn/USA pronunciation   n. [countable]
  1. Militarya light, gas-operated rifle.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
car•bine  (kärbēn, -bīn),USA pronunciation n. 
  1. a light, gas-operated semiautomatic rifle.
  2. (formerly) a short rifle used in the cavalry.
  • Provencal, akin to French escarbot cockchafer, dung beetle Latin scarabaeus scarab), though semantic change is unclear
  • Middle French: small harquebus, weapon borne by a carabin a lightly armed cavalryman, compared with (e)scarabin gravedigger for plague victims (
  • earlier carabine 1595–1605

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
carbine /ˈkɑːbaɪn/ n
  1. a light automatic or semiautomatic rifle of limited range

  2. Also called: carabin, carabine a light short-barrelled shoulder rifle formerly used by cavalry
Etymology: 17th Century: from French carabine, from Old French carabin carabineer, perhaps variant of escarrabin one who prepares corpses for burial, from scarabée, from Latin scarabaeus scarab
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