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[muhs-kit] 
–noun
| 1. | a heavy, large-caliber smoothbore gun for infantry soldiers, introduced in the 16th century: the predecessor of the modern rifle. |
| 2. | the male sparrow hawk, Accipiter nisus. |
Origin:
1580–90; < MF mousquet < It moschetto crossbow arrow, later musket, orig. kind of hawk, equiv. to mosch(a) fly (< L musca) + -etto -et
1580–90; < MF mousquet < It moschetto crossbow arrow, later musket, orig. kind of hawk, equiv. to mosch(a) fly (< L musca) + -etto -et
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| mus·ket (mŭs'kĭt) n. A smoothbore shoulder gun used from the late 16th through the 18th century. [French mousquet, from Italian moschetto, a type of crossbow, musket, from moschetta, little fly, bolt of a crossbow, diminutive of mosca, fly, from Latin musca.] |
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