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Tower muskets

Tower muskets is the plural of Tower musket.

Meaning of Tower musket

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

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What is Tower muskets the plural of?
Tower muskets is the plural of Tower musket.

Words near Tower muskets in the dictionary

  1. tower house
  2. tower houses
  3. tower ladder
  4. tower ladders
  5. Tower musket
  6. Tower muskets
  7. tower mustard
  8. Tower of Babel
  9. Tower of Hanoi
  10. Tower of Hanoy
  11. Tower of London

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