Musket is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for MUSKET in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a long-barrelled muzzle-loading shoulder gun used between the 16th and 18th centuries by infantry soldiers
• long-barrelled gun
• The male of the sparrow hawk.
• A species of firearm formerly carried by the infantry of an army. It was originally fired by means of a match, or matchlock, for which several mechanical appliances (including the flintlock, and finally the percussion lock) were successively substituted. This arm has been generally superseded by the rifle.
• a muzzle-loading shoulder gun with a long barrel; formerly used by infantrymen
• an infantryman's light gun with a long barrel, typically smooth-bored and fired from the shoulder
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a type of firearm

Words related to MUSKET

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Words that contain MUSKET

muskets13 musketry17 musketeer15 musketoon15 musketeers16 musketoons16 musketries16

How to use MUSKET in a sentence

• Grey had found his breath by this time, and had got a spare musket, for his own had been left in the woods.
• One had a musket, but it looked as if he had no powder left, for it swung idly on his back.
• You and the musket will both belong to the government.
• On that occasion every white man shouldered his musket.
• When I saw them making a move to fire at us, I rested my musket against my cheek, and aimed directly at one of the three chiefs.
• He suddenly pulled in the paddle and then grasped the musket.
• He was staring at the corner of the fence just ahead, where sat the jug of cold water, with the Revolutionary musket leaning against the rails.
• Tuesday morning by daylight we were in Harrisburg, and marched from the cars to the Capitol grounds through the just awaking town, escorted by one policeman armed with a musket.
• He rode up almost within musket shot, then turned and trotted back.
• I had left my musket hidden under the canoe, for I could not have used it in the dampness, so I had only my knife for guard.
• There was an open gateway, at which stood a soldier with a musket.
• He afterwards taught dancing to the sisters of Sir Ralph Hopton, at Wytham in Somersetshire, where, at leisure, he learned to handle the pike and musket.
• He had rushed into the inn, and just as I passed I saw him run out with his musket in his hand.
• Napoleon had but to show himself on the coast, and he would have marched without firing a musket to the capital, exactly as he had done when he came back from Elba.
• The trunk presented an excellent rest for his musket, and he fired across it.
• It was said, too, that the figure of a man, with a cloth hanging down over his face, was seen to step into the balcony of the Custom House and discharge a musket at the crowd.
• I see that yesterday a Franc-tireur was tried for breaking his musket when ordered to march.
• The attention she was giving to the least little gesture of the marquis prevented her from observing the care with which Madame du Gua aimed a musket at her.
• He made that movement just in time, for one of the men, pale with excitement, was taking deliberate aim at him with a musket.
• After the first volley was exchanged he crossed the bridge and took the cartridge-box and musket of one of the two British soldiers who were killed, which he used during the day.
• They would never hear nor understand his book, but if he would instruct them in the use of the musket he was welcome to stay.
• Soon after breakfast our party began to muster, each man armed with a long-condemned Tower musket.
• Earl and myself soon followed them to their village, where they were all drawn up to receive us, and saluted us with one musket.
• By this time a party of Spanish soldiers had surrounded the hut, one of whom kneeling before the low door, pointed his musket into it.
• In spite of this recommendation, which, owing to the noise, could scarcely have been heard, two or three musket shots resounded, succeeded by a terrible discharge.
• The theft, however, was immediately detected, and a scuffle ensued, during which this soldier, who was a sentinel near the spot, threw down his musket, and ran away.
• Priests thought that because they shouldered musket and carbine in the good cause they were at liberty to do as they liked.
• Laying his hand upon his sword hilt, he would declare, that the only method of dealing with the red men was to meet them with the sword drawn, and the musket presented.
• His hair was matted with his gore, His hands were clinched with might, As if he still his musket bore So firmly in the fight.
• I caught up a second musket, and, to make sure, let fly into the mass of them as they choked the gateway.
• Still resting him against my knee, I felt behind me for my musket.
• This morning a rabble of Potawatomis, Ottawas, Wyandots, and Chippewas thronged the common just out of musket range.
• On my pointing a musket at them, they in some measure desisted, but returned in an instant, seemingly determined to haul the boat ashore.

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