musket

Meaning of musket

noun
  1. A kind of firearm formerly carried by the infantry of an army, originally fired by means of a match, or matchlock, for which several mechanical appliances (including the flintlock, and finally the percussion lock) were successively substituted; ultimately superseded by the rifle.
    Sam, Sam, pick up thy musket.
  2. A male Eurasian sparrowhawk.

Information about musket

  • It is a name.
  • The plural form of musket is: muskets.
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Hyphenation of musket

mus-ket

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
  • musket is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

Words that rhyme with musket

sket, Tonasket, basket, breadbasket, bushelbasket, casket, clothesbasket, disjasket, flasket, gasket, handbasket, lasket, litterbasket, recasket, unbasket, washbasket, wastebasket, workbasket, forjesket, brisket, frisket, whisket, wisket, bosket, busket

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