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Piece :: Piece (n.) A musket, gun, or cannon; as, a battery of six pieces; a following piece..

Bullet :: Bullet (n.) A missile, usually of lead, and round or elongated in form, to be discharged from a rifle, musket, pistol, or other small firearm..

Musket :: Musket (n.) The male of the sparrow hawk.

Breech Screw :: Breech screw () A strong iron or steel plug screwed into the breech of a musket or other firearm, to close the bottom of the bore..

Bayonet :: Bayonet (n.) A pointed instrument of the dagger kind fitted on the muzzle of a musket or rifle, so as to give the soldier increased means of offense and defense..

Fusil :: Fusil (n.) A light kind of flintlock musket, formerly in use..

Musketoon :: Musketoon (n.) One who is armed with such a musket.

Rifle :: Rifle (n.) A gun, the inside of whose barrel is grooved with spiral channels, thus giving the ball a rotary motion and insuring greater accuracy of fire. As a military firearm it has superseded the musket..

Gun :: Gun (n.) A weapon which throws or propels a missile to a distance; any firearm or instrument for throwing projectiles by the explosion of gunpowder, consisting of a tube or barrel closed at one end, in which the projectile is placed, with an explosive charge behind, which is ignited by various means. Muskets, rifles, carbines, and fowling pieces are smaller guns, for hand use, and are called small arms. Larger guns are called cannon, ordnance, fieldpieces, carronades, howitzers, etc. See these t

Musketeer :: Musketeer (n.) A soldier armed with a musket.

Aim :: Aim (v. t.) To direct or point, as a weapon, at a particular object; to direct, as a missile, an act, or a proceeding, at, to, or against an object; as, to aim a musket or an arrow, the fist or a blow (at something); to aim a satire or a reflection (at some person or vice)..

Kick :: Kick (n.) The recoil of a musket or other firearm, when discharged..

Banquette :: Banquette (n.) A raised way or foot bank, running along the inside of a parapet, on which musketeers stand to fire upon the enemy..

Bandolier :: Bandolier (n.) A broad leather belt formerly worn by soldiers over the right shoulder and across the breast under the left arm. Originally it was used for supporting the musket and twelve cases for charges, but later only as a cartridge belt..

Musquet :: Musquet (n.) See Musket.

Handle :: Handle (v. t.) To manage in using, as a spade or a musket; to wield; often, to manage skillfully..

Hammer :: Hammer (n.) That part of a gunlock which strikes the percussion cap, or firing pin; the cock; formerly, however, a piece of steel covering the pan of a flintlock musket and struck by the flint of the cock to ignite the priming..

Orgue :: Orgue (n.) A piece of ordnance, consisting of a number of musket barrels arranged so that a match or train may connect with all their touchholes, and a discharge be secured almost or quite simultaneously..

Tang :: Tang (n.) The projecting part of the breech of a musket barrel, by which the barrel is secured to the stock..

Musketry :: Musketry (n.) Muskets, collectively..

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