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Definition of Carabines
1. carabine [n] - See also: carabine
Lexicographical Neighbors of Carabines
Literary usage of Carabines
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England by Edward Hyde Clarendon (1849)
"... but that whole wing, having unskilfully discharged their carabines and pistols
into the air, wheeled about, our horse charging them in flank and rear, ..."
2. Peveril of the Peak by Walter Scott (1879)
"One wary and well-mounted trooper rode about two hundred yards in advance;
followed, at about half that distance, by two more, with their carabines advanced ..."
3. The History of the Civil Wars of France by Arrigo Caterino Davila, Charles Cotterell, William Aylesbury, Roger L'Estrange (1678)
"... of their quarters > and alfo was of great uie for cutting wood, and to feed
the carabines ... carabines."
4. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley (1858)
"Several improvement! in breech-loading carabines have recently bee; made in the
United States, and submitted fo trial to an ordnance board at West Point ..."
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