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carabin

carabin is the archaic form of carbine.

Meaning of carbine

Noun

carbine (plural carbines)

  1. A rifle with a short barrel.
    • "Caught at last, and by those rascally Roundheads, whom you call patriots and saints, in a few minutes more I shall be shot—that is, if their clumsy carbines take good aim—to be sure they can fire near enough their mark not to miss...1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter IX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 69

Forms of carabin

pluralcarabins

Questions about carabin

What is carabin the archaic form of?
Carabin is the archaic form of carbine.

Words near carabin in the dictionary

  1. carabideous
  2. carabidologist
  3. carabidologists
  4. carabidology
  5. carabids
  6. carabin
  7. carabine
  8. carabined
  9. carabineer
  10. carabineers
  11. carabiner

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