musket
noun/ˈmʌskɪt/
/ˈmʌskɪt/
- an early type of long gun that was used by soldiers in the pastTopics War and conflictc2Word Originlate 16th cent.: from French mousquet, from Italian moschetto ‘crossbow bolt’, from mosca ‘a fly’.
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