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a type of long gun that was used by soldiers before the invention of the rifle
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Recent Examples of musket
Musk is able to launch these bundles of satellites at a Gatling-gun pace, while his competitors operate at musket speed with rockets that must be rebuilt from scratch each time.
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Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 6 May 2025
Later, Flinders interacted with the First Nations people again, this time giving them his shot belt that included musket balls, according to the release.
—Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 14 May 2025
Seriously, watch this, there's cannons blasting, musket fire and smoke everywhere!
—Jim Reineking, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2025
The gear is museum-worthy – muskets longer than men are tall, coats ranging from rich brocade to dun homespun.
—Melanie Stetson Freeman, Christian Science Monitor, 17 Apr. 2025
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Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 6 May 2025
Later, Flinders interacted with the First Nations people again, this time giving them his shot belt that included musket balls, according to the release.
—Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 14 May 2025
Seriously, watch this, there's cannons blasting, musket fire and smoke everywhere!
—Jim Reineking, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2025
The gear is museum-worthy – muskets longer than men are tall, coats ranging from rich brocade to dun homespun.
—Melanie Stetson Freeman, Christian Science Monitor, 17 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for musket
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The flintlock pistol that Torres is given by the Yautja to fight his fellow prisoners is known by Predator fans as the Raphael Adolini 1715 pistol for an engraved plate that says just that.—
Louis Peitzman,
Vulture,
13 June 2025
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Although a gunshot from a flintlock pistol lasts only an eye blink, the sound is composed of numerous elements: the squeeze of the trigger, the strike of the firing mechanism against the flint, the ignition of the powder, the slug’s passage through the barrel, the report, the impact.—
Alexis Soloski,
New York Times,
3 Jan. 2025
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Beretta traces its history to 1526, when Bartolomeo Beretta (d. 1565), a rifle barrel maker in the small northern Italian town of Gardone, sold 185 arquebus barrels—a handheld long gun and a forerunner to the modern rifle—to the Republic of Venice.—
Giacomo Tognini,
Forbes,
25 Mar. 2025
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The worshipers insisted on congregating to pray at the crucifix in the local church and threatened to shoot with an arquebus – a long gun used during the Renaissance period – anyone who got in their way.—
Hannah Marcus,
The Conversation,
25 Sep. 2020
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First-generation matchlock rifles, tanks, and aircraft had major limitations but improved over time.—
Paul Scharre,
Foreign Affairs,
15 Feb. 2018
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Guns are a part of American life, and have been since the very beginning, from the matchlock muskets arming the earliest colonies to the Colt revolvers and Winchester rifles of the Old West to the Glock handgun of today.—
Kyle Mizokami,
Popular Mechanics,
7 Mar. 2018
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And this slasher Santa Claus doesn't mess around, using an axe and a shotgun with deadly intention and also down for impaling people on deer antlers.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
26 July 2025
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Before his arrest, Vang’s son went to the home and secured a shotgun and two rifles.—
Nick Ferraro,
Twin Cities,
22 July 2025
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Many shared frustrations with blunderbuss antitrust enforcement, foot-dragging on Medicare approvals for life-saving drugs, regulation by litigation, or red tape.—
Sam Liccardo,
Mercury News,
15 July 2025
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And with the Trump administration taking a blunderbuss to anything that remotely resembles DEI, the mood across the entertainment industries is generally apprehensive.—
Zak Cheney-Rice,
Vulture,
2 June 2025
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That’s about when Derrick Perry, the other Marine, pulled out his firearm as others screamed at Gille to drop the knife.—
Theresa Braine,
New York Daily News,
27 July 2025
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The ruling does not affect federal and state laws requiring background checks for the purchase of firearms, or local ordinances regulating gun sales.—
Sharon Bernstein,
Sacbee.com,
25 July 2025
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They were then directed to a safe house where a pistol with a silencer was waiting for them.—
Sophie Tanno,
CNN Money,
13 July 2025
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Police said Wright placed the pistol to his head and fired one shot.—
Natalie Davies,
Freep.com,
11 July 2025
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“Musket.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/musket. Accessed 7 Aug. 2025.
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