Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

harquebus

/ˈhɑɹkɪbʌs/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: har-que-bus
IPA: /ˈhɑɹkɪbʌs/

23

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An obsolete matchlock firearm.

noun

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.

Example Sentences

"All the while they had their eye and foot so quicke and readie, that as soone as ever they saw the harquebuse raised to the cheeke, so soon were they on the ground, and eftsoone to answer with their bowes, and to the their way, if by chance they perceived that we were about to take them."

Etymology

From French harquebuse, borrowed from Middle Low German hakebusse or Middle Dutch hakebus, hagebus (modern Dutch haakbus), from hôk (“hook”) + busse (“box; firelock”), from Old Saxon hōk + *buhsa, from Proto-Germanic *hōkaz + *buhsā.

Origin

Source language: French

Word Breakdown

Root: harquebuse, hakebusse, hakebus, hōk, *hōkaz

Inflected Forms

harquebuses (plural) harquebusses (plural) arquebus (alternative) hackbuss (alternative) hackbut (alternative) hagbus (alternative) hagbut (alternative) hagebut (alternative) harquebuse (alternative) harquebuss (alternative)

Synonyms

arquebus hackbut hagbut

Questions

How do you pronounce harquebus?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈhɑɹkɪbʌs/.
What does harquebus mean?: An obsolete matchlock firearm.
Where does harquebus come from?: It is traced to French.

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