musket

musket meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

Examples of musket in a sentence

• […] you may be assured, had they known the terrour of Muskets, Caliuers and Piſtols, they would haue vſed the leſſe Bowes, Speares and Bills; […]1590, Roger Williams, A Briefe diſscourſe of Warre, London: Thomas Orwin, page 37:
• The Souldier having his Musket ſhoulder'd, muſt ſtand ſtraight upon his Limbs, hold up his Head, and look always to the commanding Officer, […]1689, William Plunket, William III of England, “General Obſervations § IV”, in The General Exercise Ordered by His Highness the Prince of...

All 21 example sentences with musket

Forms of musket

Plural of musket: muskets

Origin of musket

First attested around 1210 as a surname, and later in the 1400s as a word for the sparrowhawk (Middle English forms: musket, muskett, muskete (“sparrow hawk”)), from Middle French mousquet, from Old Italian moschetto (a diminutive of mosca (“fly”), from Latin musca) used to refer initially to a sparrowhawk (given its small size or speckled appearance) and then a crossbow arrow. The name was subsequently adopted for a heavier, shoulder-fired version of an arquebus, adhering to a pattern of naming firearms and cannons after birds of prey and similar creatures (compare falcon, falconet), a sense which was also borrowed into French and then (around 1580) into English. Cognate to Spanish mosquete, Portuguese mosquete. Smoothbore firearms continued to be called muskets even as they switched from using matchlocks to flintlocks to percussion locks, but with the advent of rifled muskets, the word was finally displaced by rifle.

Words formed from musket

• musket ball
• musketed
• musketless
• musketlike
• musketproof
• musketry
• Tower musket

Related words

• musketeer
• musketoon

Phrases with musket

• musket balls

Questions about musket

What does musket mean?

Musket means a kind of firearm formerly carried by the infantry of an army, originally fired by means of a match, or matchlock, for which several mechanical appliances (including the flintlock, and finally the percussion lock) were successively substituted; ultimately superseded by the rifle.

What is musket in Hindi?

Musket in Hindi is तुफ़ंग (tufaṅg). See Musket meaning in Hindi.

How do you use musket in a sentence?

[…] you may be assured, had they known the terrour of Muskets, Caliuers and Piſtols, they would haue vſed the leſſe Bowes, Speares and Bills; […]

What part of speech is musket?

Musket is a noun.

How do you pronounce musket?

Musket is pronounced /ˈmʌskət/.

What is the plural of musket?

The plural of musket is muskets.