carbine
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bin, -baɪn noun
1.
a light, gas-operated semiautomatic rifle.
2.
(formerly) a short rifle used in the cavalry.
Origin:
1595–1605; earlier carabine < Middle French: small harquebus, weapon borne by a carabin a lightly armed cavalryman, compared with (e)scarabin gravedigger for plague victims (< Provençal, akin to French escarbot cockchafer, dung beetle ≪ Latin scarabaeus scarab), though semantic change is unclear
1595–1605; earlier carabine < Middle French: small harquebus, weapon borne by a carabin a lightly armed cavalryman, compared with (e)scarabin gravedigger for plague victims (< Provençal, akin to French escarbot cockchafer, dung beetle ≪ Latin scarabaeus scarab), though semantic change is unclear
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| —n | |
| 1. | a light automatic or semiautomatic rifle of limited range |
| 2. | carabin, Also called: carabine a light short-barrelled shoulder rifle formerly used by cavalry |
| [C17: from French carabine, from Old French carabin carabineer, perhaps variant of escarrabin one who prepares corpses for burial, from scarabée, from Latin scarabaeus | |
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Word Origin & History
carbine
1590, from Fr. carabine, used of light horsemen and also of the weapon they carried, perhaps from M.L. Calabrinus "Calabrian." One far-fetched theory connects it to O.Fr. escarrabin "corpse-bearer during the plague," lit. (probably) "carrion beetle," said to have been an epithet for archers from Flanders.
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Example sentences
There are also several ranged weapons including a musket, an army carbine and a mortar.
Training is based on fundamental principles that will increase speed, accuracy and confidence with the carbine.
Know now to safely operate the carbine on the range and in the field.
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