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Definitions of musket in various dictionaries:
noun - a muzzle-loading shoulder gun with a long barrel
A smoothbore shoulder gun used from the late 16th through the 18th century.
noun - a weapon from which a shot is discharged by gunpowder
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| From the Latin for "fly", this shoulder gun let fly with ammo throughout the 17th & 18th centuries |
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| A smoothbore shoulder gun used from the late 16th through the 18th century. |
| an infantryman's light gun with a long barrel, typically smooth-bored and fired from the shoulder. |
| a muzzle-loading shoulder gun with a long barrel formerly used by infantrymen |
| a gun with a long barrel, used in the past |
| a type of gun with a long barrel that was used in the past |
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| A musket/flintlock is a muzzle-loaded, smoothbore long gun that appeared in early 16th century Europe, at first as a heavier variant of the arquebus, capable of penetrating heavy armor. By the mid-16th century, this type of musket went out of use as heavy armor declined, but as the matchlock became standard, the term musket continued as the name given for any long gun with a flintlock, and then its successors, all the way through the mid 1800s. This style of musket was retired in the 19th century when rifled muskets (simply called rifles in modern terminology) became common as a result of cartridged breech-loading firearms introduced by Casimir Lefaucheux in 1835, the invention of the Minié ball by Claude-Étienne Minié in 1849, and the first reliable repeating rifle produced by Volcanic Repeating Arms in 1854. By the time repeating rifles became common, they were known as simply "rifles", ending the era of the musket. |