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Definition of Hackbut
1. Noun. An obsolete firearm with a long barrel.
Definition of Hackbut
1. a type of gun [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hackbut
Literary usage of Hackbut
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"Same as hackbut. hack-barrow (hak'bar^o), в. A large wheelbarrow used to carry
green bricks from brick- making machines to the drying-sheds. hackamore ..."
2. The Pocket Edition of the Works of George Meredith: Originally Emilia in England by George Meredith (1897)
"CHAPTER XXV OF THE FEARFUL TEMPTATION WHICH CAME UPON ANTHONY hackbut, AND OF
HIS MEETING WITH DAHLIA IT requires, happily, many years of an ordinary man's ..."
3. Through Romany Songland by Laura Alexandrine Smith (1889)
"He refers to the use of the hackbut and cymbals amongst the gypsies in former times.
At the present day the hackbut is a favourite instrument ..."
4. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"... often and wrongly supposed to indicate the hackbut's affinity with the ...
the arquebus or hackbut came into prominence as a distinct type of weapon. ..."
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