verb

definition

To shoot with an arquebus.

noun

definition

An obsolete matchlock firearm.

definition

A portable gun, varying in size from a small cannon to a musket. When used in the field it was supported upon a tripod or trestle.

Examples of arquebus in a Sentence

They attempted in 512 to take Bougie from the Spaniards, but were beaten off, and Arouj lost an arm, shattered by an arquebus shot.

In the spring he joined a war party of Algonquins and Hurons, discovered the great lake that bears his name, and, near the present Ticonderoga, took with his arquebus an important part in the victory which his savage friends obtained over the Iroquois.

It was in the main struggle of arquebus against pike, but it was not the arquebus alone, or even principally, that gave the victory to the French.

Samurai converts to Christianity also tended to use the arquebus although Shimazu Takahisa did not himself convert.

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