hackbut


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hack·but

 (hăk′bŭt′)
n.
See harquebus.
[French haquebute, from Old French hacquebute, alteration (influenced by buter, to aim at) of Middle Dutch hakebus; see harquebus.]
hack′but·eer′ (-bə-tîr′), hack′but′ter n.
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hackbut

(ˈhækbʌt) or

hagbut

n
(Firearms, Gunnery, Ordnance & Artillery) another word for arquebus
ˌhackbutˈeer, ˈhackbutter, ˌhagbutˈeer, ˈhagbutter n
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.hackbut - an obsolete firearm with a long barrelhackbut - an obsolete firearm with a long barrel
arquebus, hagbut, harquebus
muzzle loader - an obsolete firearm that was loaded through the muzzle
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They merely wore a gayer air than was their wont, and some weapon could be seen glittering between the legs of each of them,--a sickle, an axe, a big two-edged sword or the hook of an old hackbut.
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Footnotes are at the hackbut usefully numbered in one sequence for the whole book, so easy to find, and there is an index.
Michelle P. Brown: The Book and the Transformation of Britain c. 550-1050. A Study in Written and Visual Literacy and Orality. The Sandars Lectures in Bibliography, Cambridge University Library, 2009
The vicar of the Uniate metropolitan of Kyiv had to flee from Vydubychi monastery when a Cossack entered and began firing at him from a hackbut (p.
History of Ukraine Rus', Volume Seven: The Cossack Age to 1625

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