Definition of musket Musket

/mʌˈskʌt/ - [muskut] - mus•ket

We found 7 definitions of musket from 6 different sources.

What does musket mean?

Noun Plural: muskets
musket - a muzzle-loading shoulder gun with a long barrel; formerly used by infantrymen
		muzzle loader an obsolete firearm that was loaded through the muzzle
		blunderbuss a short musket of wide bore with a flared muzzle
		culverin a medieval musket
		fusil a light flintlock musket

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musket (Noun)
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 This arm has been superseded by the rifle.

musket (n.)
The male of the sparrow hawk.
musket (n.)
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 This arm has been generally superseded by the rifle.

musket
The regulation fire-arm for infantry and small-arm men. That of the English service, when a smooth bore, threw its bullet of about an ounce 250 yards with good effect; now, rifling has trebled its range, whilst breech-loading has done at least as much by its rapidity of fire.

musket
(Fr. mousquet). The fire-arm for infantry soldiers, which succeeded the clumsy arquebuse, and has itself given way before the rifle (which see). The first muskets were matchlocks; after which came wheel-locks, asnaphans or snaphance muskets, and lastly percussion muskets, which were a vast improvement both for accuracy and lightness on all which had gone before. Compared, however, to the present rifle, the musket was a heavy, ugly, and ineffective weapon.