musket

Noun
  1. A muzzle-loading shoulder gun with a long barrel;
    Formerly used by infantrymen (synset 103807547)
    is a type of: muzzle loader - an obsolete firearm that was loaded through the muzzle
    subtypes:
    • blunderbuss - a short musket of wide bore with a flared muzzle
    • culverin - a medieval musket
    • fusil - a light flintlock musket
    • matchlock - an early style of musket; a slow-burning wick would be lowered into a hole in the breech to ignite the charge

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