Arquebus

Definition: Arquebus

Arquebus

Noun

1. An obsolete firearm with a long barrel.

Date "arquebus" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1844. (references)

"Arquebus" is a common misspelling or typo for: harquebus.

Synonyms: Arquebus

Synonyms: hackbut (n), hagbut (n), harquebus (n). (additional references)

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Specialty Definition: Arquebus

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

The Arquebus was a primitive type of firearm used in the 15th to 17th centuries. Like the musket it is a smoothbore firearm although somewhat smaller and uses a matchlock as its firing mechanism.

There is a mention of it in the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta The Yeomen of the Guard.

Compare rifle.

External Link

http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/Campground/8551/arquebus.html

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Arquebus."

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Synonyms within Context: Arquebus

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Arms	Small arms; musket, musketry, firelock, fowling piece, rifle, fusil, caliver, carbine, blunderbuss, musketoon, Brown Bess, matchlock, harquebuss, arquebus, haguebut; pistol, postolet; petronel; small bore; breach-loader, muzzle-loader; revolver, repeater; Minis rifle, Enfield rifle, Flobert rifle, Westley Richards rifle, Snider rifle, Martini-Henry rifle, Lee-Metford rifle, Lee-Enfield rifle, Mauser rifle, magazine rifle; needle gun, chassepot; wind gun, air gun; automatic gun, automatic pistol; escopet, escopette, gunflint, gun-lock; hackbut, shooter, shooting iron , six-shooter, shotgun; Uzzi, assault rifle, KalashnikoVerb:
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Arquebus

English words defined with "arquebus": Arcubus, Arquebusade, Arquebusier ♦ Caliver ♦ Hagbutter, Harquebuse. (references)

Etymologies containing "arquebus": Arquebusade ♦ Hagbutter. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Arquebus

"Arquebus" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Arquebus" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	2	245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Arquebus

Expression using "arquebus": arquebus with matchlock. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Arquebus

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
arquebus	19
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Arquebus

Language		Translations for "arquebus"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏القربينة بندقية قديمة الطراز. (various references)

Bulgarian		аркебуз (hackbut). (various references)

French		arquebuse. (various references)

Hungarian		szakállas puska (harquebus). (various references)

Italian		archibugio (harquebus). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		火縄銃 (matchlock). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ひなわじゅう (matchlock). (various references)

Pig Latin		arquebusay

Portuguese		arcabuz (hackbut, harquebus, musket). (various references)

Russian		аркебуза (hackbut, harquebus). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		arkebuza. (various references)

Spanish		arcabuz (harquebus). (various references)

Turkish		eski bir tür silah. (various references)

Vietnamese		súng hoả mai (musket). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Arquebus

Derivations
	Words beginning with "arquebus": arquebuses. (additional references)
	Words ending with "arquebus": harquebus. (additional references)
	Words containing "arquebus": harquebuses, harquebusier, harquebusiers. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Arquebus

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-e-q-r-s-u-u"
	-1 letter: barques, brusque, bureaus.
	-2 letters: abuser, aureus, barque, basque, bureau, bursae, square, uraeus.
	-3 letters: abuse, aures, bares, baser, bears, beaus, braes, buras, bursa, burse, quare, rebus, rubes, rubus, saber, sabre, squab, suber, urase, ureas, ursae, usque.
	-4 letters: arbs, ares, arse, bare, bars, base, bear, beau, brae, bras, bura, burs, ears, eras, rase, rebs, rube, rubs.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-e-q-r-s-u-u"
	+1 letter: harquebus.
	+2 letters: arquebuses.
	+3 letters: harquebuses.
	+4 letters: harquebusier.
	+5 letters: harquebusiers.
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