Arquebus

(noun.) an obsolete firearm with a long barrel.

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• Among ancient fire-arms the principal ones were the arquebus, also bombardelle, and the blunderbuss. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• King Henry VIII of England, he of the many wives, had a match-lock arquebus of this type dated 1537. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• As the arquebus succeeded the bow and arrow, so the musket, a smooth and single-barrel muzzle-loader with a flint-lock and a wooden ramrod, succeeded the arquebus. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.

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