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a type of long gun that was used by soldiers before the invention of the rifle
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The town's population grew in the 1820s as a result of the lead mining boom, where the mine became one of the most productive in the region, manufacturing the musket balls used in the Civil War, according to the city's website.
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Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 3 Sep. 2024
This image provided by Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, shows a lead musket ball that was excavated in the summer of 2023 by archaeologists.
—CBS News, 17 May 2024
Also, even though the 16th Amendment – which ushered in the federal income tax – didn’t pass until 1909, Mr. Jacobs happily deducted the cost of his musket and other accoutrements as business expenses.
—Roy Rivenburg, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Aug. 2024
But by the Civil War, muskets had been replaced by rifled barrels, which took much less time to reload and were more accurate.
—Mark A. Milley, Foreign Affairs, 5 Aug. 2024
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Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 3 Sep. 2024
This image provided by Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, shows a lead musket ball that was excavated in the summer of 2023 by archaeologists.
—CBS News, 17 May 2024
Also, even though the 16th Amendment – which ushered in the federal income tax – didn’t pass until 1909, Mr. Jacobs happily deducted the cost of his musket and other accoutrements as business expenses.
—Roy Rivenburg, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Aug. 2024
But by the Civil War, muskets had been replaced by rifled barrels, which took much less time to reload and were more accurate.
—Mark A. Milley, Foreign Affairs, 5 Aug. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for musket
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My first rifle had been a flintlock that had been given to me by an old friend, Ed Wesson, the gunsmith.Outdoor Life, Outdoor Life, 23 Nov. 2023
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Modern gun technologies are far, far more deadly than the one-shot flintlocks of the 18th century—shouldn’t that matter?Robert J. Spitzer, Time, 6 June 2023
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First-generation matchlock rifles, tanks, and aircraft had major limitations but improved over time.Paul Scharre, Foreign Affairs, 15 Feb. 2018
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Guns are a part of American life, and have been since the very beginning, from the matchlock muskets arming the earliest colonies to the Colt revolvers and Winchester rifles of the Old West to the Glock handgun of today.Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 7 Mar. 2018
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Detectives later learned that Mr. Greer carried a double-barrel 12-gauge shotgun in his patrol car and that Ms. Easterly had been shot with a 12-gauge shotgun.Michael Levenson, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2025
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In 2020, police had raided the home of Randy’s dad and seized cocaine, fentanyl, cash, a couple Mossberg shotguns, a pill press, and a stun gun.Jesse Hyde, Rolling Stone, 4 Jan. 2025
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Colman is Edith Swan, a middle-aged church lady who still lives with her blunderbuss of a father (Timothy Spall) and mild-mannered mother (Gemma Jones) in a working-class neighborhood of Littlehampton.Ty Burr, Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2024
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The State Department, in its blunderbuss way, wanted to open up a kind of détente with the citizens of Communist Eastern Europe.Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 27 Mar. 2023
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The bill redefines dealers to include anyone who sells over 11 firearms or specific components annually.Tim Clouser | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 4 Jan. 2025
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Witnesses told officers that the Hayes-Reed’s firearm had malfunctioned.Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Jan. 2025
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From an opening scene on the high seas as a French merchant ship is aflame to a stag hunt on an aristocratic estate to a pistol duel at dawn, the writer-directors capture the scope and grandeur of Dumas’ story.Scott Phillips, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
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He had been shot four times with a .45-caliber pistol and had been struck by a vehicle, police said.Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 29 Dec. 2024
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“Musket.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/musket. Accessed 15 Jan. 2025.
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