Carbine

Definition: Carbine

Carbine

Noun

1. Light automatic rifle.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "carbine" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Etymology: Carbine \Car"bine\, noun. [French expression carbine, Old French calabrin carabineer (Compare to Ot. calabrina policeman), from OF Pr. calabre, Old French cable, chable, an engine of war used in besieging, from Late Latin expression chadabula, cabulus, kind of projectile machine, from the Greek expression throwing down, from to throw; down to throw. Compare to Parable.]. (Websters 1913)

CARBINE

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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:

Crosswords: Carbine

I want an official Red Rider carbine action 200 shot range model air rifle. (A Christmas Story; writing credit: Leigh Brown, Bob Clark, and Jean Shepherd.)

Carbine Williams (1952)

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Books

• Complete Guide to the M1 Garand and the M1 Carbine (reference)

• Indian war cartridge pouches, boxes, and carbine boots (reference)

• Mannlicher Model 95 Rifle and Carbine : The Royal Italian Infantry Manual (reference)

• The American Krag Rifle and Carbine (reference)

• The SKS Carbine, 2nd edition (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Duck! The Carbine High Massacre (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

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Launching party of DAVID STARR JORDAN at Christy Shipyards. Bob Wolf of BCF in center of photo (tallest) and F. E. Carbine, Regional Director of BCF Great Lakes on far right.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

"Marine Corps Leathernecks with the 1st Marine Division in Korea are subject to outdoor advertising of a not particularly persuasive type these days. As enemy positions are overrun, signs such as the ones in this photograph, taken by Marine Corps Combat photographers, are found. It's a new kind of recruiting for the Communist Peoples Volunteer Force -- but Communist recruiting officers reports are strangely silent as to the success of the current campaign." Quoted from the original caption released with this p.Credit: NAVY; photo by Commander, Naval Forces Far East under date of 11 May 1951. Note the Marine's goggles and M-1 carbine..

One of two specially-marked Mitsubishi G4M-1 ("Betty") aircraft lands at an airfield on Ie Shima, Ryukyu Islands, 19 August 1945. The plane brought a Japanese delegation who were flown on to Manila in a USAAF C-54 transport to receive instructions concerning the surrender and occupation. The plane in the foreground, providing shade for onlookers, is a C-54. The guard in the right center foreground carries an M-1 carbine.Credit: NAVY.

First Lieutenant Baldomero Lopez, USMC, leads the 3rd Platoon, Company A, 1st Battalion, 5th Marines over the seawall on the northern side of Red Beach, as the second assault wave lands, 15 September 1950. Wooden scaling ladders are in use to facilitate disembarkation from the LCVP that brought these men to the shore. Lt. Lopez was killed in action within a few minutes, while assaulting a North Korean bunker. Note M-1 Carbine carried by Lt. Lopez, M-1 Rifles of other Marines and details of the Marines' field gear.Credit: NAVY.

Warner Robins, Georgia. Air Service Command, Robins Field. Enlisted men of a depot group learning to handle a carbine.Credit: Library of Congress.

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The Rue de la Chanvrerie was hardly as long as the range of a carbine.

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Expression using "carbine": pistol carbine. Additional references.

Albanian

karabinë (rifle). (various references)

Arabic 

‏القربينة بندقية قصيرة. (various references)

Bulgarian 

карабина (carabine). (various references)

Czech

karabina (carabine). (various references)

Danish

karabin. (various references)

Dutch

karabijn. (various references)

Farsi 

کارابین , تفنگ لوله کوتاه سبک . (various references)

French

carabine. (various references)

German

karabiner (carabineer, carbines, crab, snap link). (various references)

Greek 

καραμπίνα (carabin, carom, gun, rifle). (various references)

Hungarian

karabély (carabin, carabine, musket, rifle), rugóshorog (carabine-swivel), karabiner (carabine-swivel), biztonsági rugóshorog. (various references)

Indonesian

karaben. (various references)

Italian

carabina (rifle). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

カード会�"� (car heater, card holder, cardmember, carnation, Carnegie, Carnegie Hall, Carnegie Mellon, carnival, Kaaba, kernel), カー�"ン銃 (calf, calfskin, car ferry, convex mirror, curb market, curve, curve ball). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

カー�"ンじゅう, カー�"ン . (various references)

Pig Latin

arbinecay

Portuguese

carabina (carabine, rifle). (various references)

Romanian

carabinã (carabine, rifle). (various references)

Russian 

карабин (carabine, dragon, shackle). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

karabin (carabine). (various references)

Spanish

carabina (carbineer, chaperon, rifle, spring hook). (various references)

Swedish

karbin (carabine). (various references)

Thai

ปืนไรเฟิลชนิ�"หนึ่งมีน้ำหนักเบาและสั้น. (various references)

Turkish

karabina. (various references)

Ukranian 

карабін (carabine, spring hook). (various references)

Vietnamese 

súng $cacbin (carabine). (various references)

escarrabin. (various references)

dragon. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "carbine": carbines. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Carbine" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Arbonne, cabini, Cambien, cambine, Caprinae, carbene, Carbi, carbiner, carbinet, Carbonel, Carboni, Carbonne, carbono, cardine, Carfin, caribaea, carien, carinae, carine, carinne, Carnbane, caubeen, Circini, cirine, corbina, craine, sarbin. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: caribe, carnie.

-2 letters: acerb, areic, bairn, baric, brace, brain, brine, caber, cabin, cairn, caner, ceiba, ceria, crane, erica, nacre, naric, nicer, rabic, rance.

-3 letters: abri, acne, acre, airn, bane, bani, bare, barn, bean, bear, bice, bier, bine, brae, bran, bren, brie, brin, cain, cane, carb, care, carn, cine, cire, crab, crib, earn, nabe.

+1 letter: bacterin, brisance, carabine, carbines, vibrance.

+2 letters: anaerobic, bacterins, braincase, branchiae, branchier, breaching, brisances, cabinetry, cambering, carabiner, carabines, carbonize, embracing, incurable, vibrances.

+3 letters: abreacting, abreaction, acerbating, barbecuing, becharming, becrawling, bracketing, braincases, branchiest, branchline, brilliance, carabineer, carabinero, carabiners, carabinier, carbonized, carbonizes, chambering, chinaberry, clabbering, clambering, cranesbill, incurables, linebacker, republican, transcribe, vibrancies.

+4 letters: abecedarian, aberrancies, abreactions, bacteriocin, bacterizing, baronetcies, becarpeting, beclamoring, becowarding, beneficiary, berascaling, bicarbonate, bicentenary, branchlines, brecciating, brecciation, brilliances, cabinetries, cabinetwork, carabineers, carabineros, carabiniere, carabinieri, carabiniers, carbureting, carburetion, celebrating, celebration, cerebrating, cerebration, chamberlain, cinnabarine, confirmable, cranberries, cranesbills, cybernation, decarbonize, discernable, disturbance, embracingly, embrocation, exorbitance, forbiddance, hibernacula, increasable, inscrutable, interbranch, intractable, linebackers, rebalancing, rebranching, recombinant, republicans, rubefacient, transcribed, transcriber, transcribes.

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