(noun.) a muzzle-loading shoulder gun with a long barrel; formerly used by infantrymen.
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双语例句
As it was, she merely stipulated, If you bring the boy back with his head blown to bits by a musket, don't look to me to put it together again. 查尔斯·狄更斯.远大前程.
I ate them by two or three at a mouthful, and took three loaves at a time, about the bigness of musket bullets. 乔纳森·斯威夫特.格列佛游记.
While I was at West Point the tactics used in the army had been Scott's and the musket the flint lock. 尤利西斯·格兰特.U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
I had scarcely left when a musket ball entered the room, struck the head of the sofa, passed through it and lodged in the foot. 尤利西斯·格兰特.U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
A musket is a more expensive machine than a javelin or a bow and arrows; a cannon or a mortar, than a balista or a catapulta. 亚当·斯密.国富论.
On the contrary, the cannon was the predecessor of the musket and its successors. 佚名.神奇的知识之书.
The only proviso that Justinian made was that the women, on their arrival, should keep out of musket-shot and not risk their lives. 弗格斯·休姆.奇幻岛.
It seems that the musket had been run over by a handcar, which slightly bent the long barrel, but not sufficiently for an amateur like Fox to notice. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔.爱迪生的生平和发明.
I require little sleep, and it pleases me on a fine night to wander for an hour or two with my musket about the hollow. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.雪莉.
I should not mind taking my turn to watch the mill one of these summer nights, armed with your musket, Joe. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.雪莉.
A splashing and a tramping; a hurrahing, uproaring, musket-volleying; the truest segment of Chaos seen in these latter Ages! 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
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.
Other men enter the arena on foot, armed with red flags and explosives about the size of a musket cartridge. 尤利西斯·格兰特.U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
The ammunition carried with them was two hundred rounds for musket and gun. 尤利西斯·格兰特.U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
As the balls are made to slip into the barrels easily, they can be loaded as readily as the common musket: and they will carry three times the distance, with much more certainty. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔.伟大的事实.
Spain had 10,000 muskets to modernize by the same system, and the breech-block attachments were made at Ilion. 佚名.神奇的知识之书.
The night was so dark that the men could not distinguish one from another except by the light of the flashes of their muskets. 尤利西斯·格兰特.U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
Hears his number called, hears himself challenged, hears the rattle of the muskets, hears the orders 'Make ready! 查尔斯·狄更斯.远大前程.
He imitated the action of a man's being impelled forward by the butt-ends of muskets. 查尔斯·狄更斯.双城记.
The soldiers had their muskets, but no ammunition, while there were tons of it close at hand. 尤利西斯·格兰特.U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
This was accomplished for the first time in America at the Remington plant, in making Harper’s Ferry muskets. 佚名.神奇的知识之书.
The infantry with their muzzle-loading muskets could not keep up a steady enough fire to wither determined cavalry before it charged home. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
Deep ditch, single drawbridge, massive stone walls, eight great towers, cannon, muskets, fire and smoke. 查尔斯·狄更斯.双城记.
Vot for should any man vont fore to see great many muskets, all put straight togeter fore to do noting? 哈里特·威尔逊.哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
Muskets with straight grooves are said to have been used in the fifteenth century. 威廉·亨利·杜利特.世纪发明.
The soldiers thought I wanted to leave the city, and they sprang up and barred the way with their muskets. 马克·吐温.傻子出国记.
Muskets were thrust into the carriage: Your passports? 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
The infantry under General Taylor was armed with flint-lock muskets, and paper cartridges charged with powder, buck-shot and ball. 尤利西斯·格兰特.U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
His men resumed their muskets and fell in. 查尔斯·狄更斯.远大前程.
The wooden walls of the navies disappeared as a defence after the conflict between the Monitor and the Merrimac, and muzzle-loading muskets became things of the past. 威廉·亨利·杜利特.世纪发明.