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hackbush

hackbush is the obsolete form of arquebus.

Meaning of arquebus

Verb

arquebus (third-person singular simple present arquebuses, present participle arquebusing, simple past and past participle arquebused)

  1. (rare, transitive) To shoot with an arquebus.

Forms of hackbush

pluralhackbushes

Questions about hackbush

What is hackbush the obsolete form of?
Hackbush is the obsolete form of arquebus.

Words near hackbush in the dictionary

  1. hackbolts
  2. hackbot
  3. hackbots
  4. hackbrett
  5. Hackbridge
  6. hackbush
  7. hackbushes
  8. hackbuss
  9. hackbusses
  10. hackbut
  11. hackbuteer

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hackbush (page history and authors); arquebus (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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