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noun
Any of a range of early gunpowder-fired guns of various sizes, from firearm to artillery.
A kind of handgun.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
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noun
Any of a range of early gunpowder-fired guns of various sizes, from firearm to artillery.
A large cannon.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
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noun
a medieval musket
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: musket
noun
a heavy cannon with a long barrel used in the 16th and 17th centuries
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: cannon
History
From Middle English culveryne, from Old French coulevrine, from couleuvre (“snake”) (or from Latin colubrīnus), ultimately from Latin colubra, coluber (“snake”). Doublet of colubrine.
Across languages
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