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hackbuss

hackbuss 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 hackbuss

pluralhackbusses

Questions about hackbuss

What is hackbuss the obsolete form of?
Hackbuss is the obsolete form of arquebus.

Words near hackbuss in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hackbuss (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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