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What does harquebus mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word harquebus? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. An obsolete matchlock firearm.
  2. A portable gun, varying in size from a small cannon to a musket. When used in the field it was supported upon a tripod or trestle.
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For that we might have trouble, four harquebus men and four crossbows were going.
Of these weapons there were two sorts, the musket and the harquebus.
Lupin thought of the Sire de Tancarville and the sentry who had killed him with a shot from his harquebus.
At the Admiral's command the harquebus and crossbow men laid their weapons down, though watchful eye was kept.
Guarding the rear at the passage of the Sesia, Bayard was mortally wounded by a harquebus ball.
Improvements in the harquebus and musket, as it got to be called later on, continued to be developed from time to time.

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