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hackbut

hackbut 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 hackbut

pluralhackbuts

Words formed from hackbut

Questions about hackbut

What is hackbut the obsolete form of?
Hackbut is the obsolete form of arquebus.

Words near hackbut in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hackbut (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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