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Arquebuse [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. 'ARQUEBUSE ,

2. H'ARQUEBUSE, noun

3. A hand gun; a species of fire arms, anciently used, which was cocked with a wheel. It carried a ball that weighed nearly two ounces. A larger kind, used in fortresses carried a ball of three ounces and a half.

Arquebuse [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A sort of hand gun or firearm a contrivance answering to a trigger, by which the burning match was applied. The musket was a later invention.