Harquebus

Alternative forms

• arquebus
• hackbuss
• hackbut
• hagbus
• hagbut
• hagebut
• harbus
• harbush
• harquebuse
• harquebuss

Full definition of harquebus

Noun

1. An obsolete matchlock firearm.
• 1850, William Gilmore Simms, The Lily and the Totem: or, The Huguenots in Florida Chapter , 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 eftsoons
2. 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.