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 This arm has been completely superseded by the rifle, and is now only of historical interest.
A firearm with a smooth-bored barrel, having a limited range and of doubtful accuracy. Use discontinued during 19th century .
A smoothbore military shoulder gun with a long barrel and forend stock extending nearly to the muzzle. Muskets were in common use during the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries.
Military firearm with long barrel and fore-end or forearm extending nearly to muzzle.
A smoothbore, long barreled firearm used by infantry soldiers until the second half of the 19th Century
(n.) A smoothbore military muzzleloading shoulder arm. Muskets were the worldwide standard in military infantry weapons before the adoption of the rifle as standard. The advantage muskets possess over rifles is that being smoothbores and using undersize bullets, they could be loaded much more quickly than a muzzleloading rifle. The downside to this is that muskets were very inaccurate compared to rifles. Shooting at an individual target, they possess an effective range of about 50 yards. For this reason, massed volley fire was used, with the idea that if you throw enough lead at the enemy some of the bullets will strike home.
A heavy, smooth bore, long-barrelled weapon, fired from the shoulder. RCHME. Muskets were transported from Clifford's Tower in 1650 and 1652, suggesting the the building was in use as an armoury.
What the old guns were called. A ball is a round bullet of lead fired from it. It looked like a metal marble. These riffles could only fire one shot at a time, so after a shot they had to be reloaded.
A heavy large-calibre shoulder firearm.
a muzzle-loading shoulder gun with a long barrel; formerly used by infantrymen
a heavy barreled military gun fired from the shoulder with or without a fork rest
a muzzle-loaded, smooth-bore long gun
a muzzle-loaded, smoothbore Smoothbore refers to a firearm which does not have a rifled barrel
a muzzle-loading smoothbore long gun that is loaded with a round lead ball, but it can also be loaded with shot for hunting
A type of gun with a long barrel used before the invention of the rifle
A smoothbore shoulder gun used in the 17th century
long gun which has a completely smooth bore and is intended to fire a single projectile rather than a collection of shot. Muskets were common before rifles were invented, but now they are mostly collector's items.
A smooth-bore flintlock shoulder gun.
a smooth-bored barrel fire-arm, the predecessor of the rifle.
The name of a shoulder fired muzzle loading (and usually) smoothbore gun held in both hands.
A smoothbore firearm fired from the shoulder. Thrust from exploding powder shoots the bullet forward like a chest pass in basketball.
A musket is a muzzle-loaded, smoothbore long gun, which its user generally fires from the shoulder. The date of the origin of muskets remains unknown, but they are mentioned as early as the late 13th century, and they were primarily designed for use by infantry. Improved with the introduction of rifling around 1800, muzzleloading rifled muskets (of the kind common in the American Civil War) became obsolete by the late 19th century, as cartridge breechloading repeaters superseded them.