harquebus

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An obsolete matchlock firearm.
    — All the while they had their eye and foot so quicke and readie, that as soone as ever they saw the harquebuse raised to the cheeke, so soon were they on the ground, and eftsoone to answer with their bowes, and to the their way, if by chance they perceived that we were about to take them.
  2. A portable gun, varying in size from a small cannon to a musket. When used in the field it was supported upon a tripod or trestle.

词形变化

harquebuses plural harquebusses plural arquebus alternative hackbuss alternative hackbut alternative hagbus alternative hagbut alternative hagebut alternative harquebuse alternative harquebuss alternative

词源

From French harquebuse, borrowed from Middle Low German hakebusse or Middle Dutch hakebus, hagebus (modern Dutch haakbus), from hôk (“hook”) + busse (“box; firelock”), from Old Saxon hōk + *buhsa, from Proto-Germanic *hōkaz + *buhsā.
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