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Bandolier :: Bandolier (n.) A broad leather belt formerly worn by soldiers over the right shoulder and across the breast under the left arm. Originally it was used for supporting the musket and twelve cases for charges, but later only as a cartridge belt..

Arquebuse :: Arquebuse (n.) A sort of hand gun or firearm a contrivance answering to a trigger, by which the burning match was applied. The musket was a later invention..

Armory :: Armory (n.) A manufactory of arms, as rifles, muskets, pistols, bayonets, swords..

Mantelet :: Mantelet (n.) A musket-proof shield of rope, wood, or metal, which is sometimes used for the protection of sappers or riflemen while attacking a fortress, or of gunners at embrasures; -- now commonly written mantlet..

Orgue :: Orgue (n.) A piece of ordnance, consisting of a number of musket barrels arranged so that a match or train may connect with all their touchholes, and a discharge be secured almost or quite simultaneously..

Aim :: Aim (v. t.) To direct or point, as a weapon, at a particular object; to direct, as a missile, an act, or a proceeding, at, to, or against an object; as, to aim a musket or an arrow, the fist or a blow (at something); to aim a satire or a reflection (at some person or vice)..

Handle :: Handle (v. t.) To manage in using, as a spade or a musket; to wield; often, to manage skillfully..

Tompion :: Tompion (n.) A stopper of a cannon or a musket. See Tampion.

Port :: Port (v. t.) To throw, as a musket, diagonally across the body, with the lock in front, the right hand grasping the small of the stock, and the barrel sloping upward and crossing the point of the left shoulder; as, to port arms..

Musketoon :: Musketoon (n.) A short musket.

Round :: Round (a.) Having the form of a cylinder; cylindrical; as, the barrel of a musket is round..

Gunstick :: Gunstick (n.) A stick to ram down the charge of a musket, etc.; a rammer or ramrod..

Musketoon :: Musketoon (n.) One who is armed with such a musket.

Gun :: Gun (n.) A weapon which throws or propels a missile to a distance; any firearm or instrument for throwing projectiles by the explosion of gunpowder, consisting of a tube or barrel closed at one end, in which the projectile is placed, with an explosive charge behind, which is ignited by various means. Muskets, rifles, carbines, and fowling pieces are smaller guns, for hand use, and are called small arms. Larger guns are called cannon, ordnance, fieldpieces, carronades, howitzers, etc. See these t

Ranger :: Ranger (n.) One of a body of mounted troops, formerly armed with short muskets, who range over the country, and often fight on foot..

Fire :: Fire (v. t.) To cause to explode; as, to fire a torpedo; to disharge; as, to fire a musket or cannon; to fire cannon balls, rockets, etc..

Kick :: Kick (n.) The recoil of a musket or other firearm, when discharged..

Hammer :: Hammer (n.) That part of a gunlock which strikes the percussion cap, or firing pin; the cock; formerly, however, a piece of steel covering the pan of a flintlock musket and struck by the flint of the cock to ignite the priming..

Fusil :: Fusil (n.) A light kind of flintlock musket, formerly in use..

Carbine :: Carbine (n.) A short, light musket or rifle, esp. one used by mounted soldiers or cavalry..

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