carbine

From French carabine

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑɹbiːn/, /ˈkɑɹbaɪn/

carbine (plural carbines)

1. A rifle with a short barrel.
   • 1934, George Orwell, chapter 6, in Burmese Days‎:

     The lock-up was upstairs, a cage surrounded by six-inch wooden bars, guarded by a constable armed with a carbine.

   • December 2010, John Pollock, A Foreign Devil in China, World Wide Publications, →ISBN, page 45:

     Inside the wall they found "a small cannon aimed at the entrance of the gate, and all along the street soldiers were stationed and a few on horseback were riding up and down. One of these had his carbine strapped on his back, and swung under his arm was a three-foot beheading sword wrapped in red cloth. That section had been terrorized by robbers, and they were prepared."

• Jungle Carbine

• brace in