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Tower musket

Tower musket noun: a long firearm, notably the Brown Bess flintlock and the Pattern 1853 Enfield, inspected, produced, or marked by the Tower of London armory.

Noun

Tower musket (plural Tower muskets)

  1. A long firearm, notably the Brown Bess flintlock and the Pattern 1853 Enfield, inspected, produced, or marked by the Tower of London armory.
    • I also bought two tower muskets to satisfy my crew, who insisted on the necessity of being armed against attacks of pirates; and with spices and a few articles of food for the voyage nearly my last doit was expended.1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 113

Forms of Tower musket

pluralTower muskets

Questions about Tower musket

What does Tower musket mean?
Tower musket means a long firearm, notably the Brown Bess flintlock and the Pattern 1853 Enfield, inspected, produced, or marked by the Tower of London armory.
What part of speech is Tower musket?
Tower musket is a noun.
What is the plural of Tower musket?
The plural of Tower musket is Tower muskets.

Words near Tower musket in the dictionary

  1. Tower Hill
  2. tower house
  3. tower houses
  4. tower ladder
  5. tower ladders
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  8. tower mustard
  9. Tower of Babel
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  11. Tower of Hanoy

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