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musquetry

musquetry is the obsolete form of musketry.

Meaning of musketry

Noun

musketry (countable and uncountable, plural musketries)

  1. The technique of using small arms such as muskets.
    • "Nickle will never make a reliable shot," confided Mr. Carrados to the little band of paralysed listeners. "He always takes sight too low—fault of British army musketry training. […]"1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London
  2. A collection of muskets or musketeers.
  3. Musket fire.
    • A heavy trampling of steps—clashing as if of swords—several rounds of musketry—screams—shouts—rose in the direction of the court.1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, pages 251–252

Origin of musquetry

From musquet + -ry.

Questions about musquetry

What is musquetry the obsolete form of?
Musquetry is the obsolete form of musketry.

Words near musquetry in the dictionary

  1. musqueto
  2. musquetoes
  3. musquetoon
  4. musquetoons
  5. musquetos
  6. musquetry
  7. musquets
  8. musquito
  9. musquitoes
  10. musquitos
  11. Musquiz

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Adapted from Wiktionary: musquetry (page history and authors); musketry (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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