Definition of "musquet" [mus•quet]

• Alternative spelling of musket. (noun)

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• "A musquet is a more expensive machine than a javelin or a bow and arrows; a cannon or a mortar than a balista or a catapulta."
• "We accordingly placed double sentries during the night, and made every man sleep with his loaded musquet at hand."
• "They stopped when they came within two musquet-shots of me, as if they had waited to see which way I took."