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harquebus
[ hahr-kwuh-buhs ]
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At the Admiral's command the harquebus and crossbow men laid their weapons down, though watchful eye was kept.
Improvements in the harquebus and musket, as it got to be called later on, continued to be developed from time to time.
The harquebus-a-croc, a weapon almost exactly similar, threw small cross-bar shot "to cut Sails and Rigging."
Here's a fine blade, now, and a musket—give me a harquebus; I could shoot once, but my arm is all of a wamble now.
Well, a lot of Terrans in the Year Zero had never seen a suit of armor, or an harquebus, or even a tinder box or a spinning wheel.
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