musket

• musquet

From Middle English musket, muskett, muskete, muskytte (“sparrow hawk”), from Old Northern French mousket, mosquet, from Italian moschetto, diminutive of mosca (“fly”). The firearm was named after the sparrowhawk because of its small size, and the "firearm" sense was reborrowed from modern French mousquet.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmʌskət/, /ˈmʌskɪt/

musket (plural muskets)

1. A kind of firearm formerly carried by the infantry of an army. It was 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. This arm has been superseded by the rifle.

   Soldier, soldier, won't you marry me, with your musket, fife and drum.

   Sam, Sam, pick up thy musket.

2. (falconry) A male Eurasian sparrowhawk.

• musketeer

• musketoon

• musket on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

From French mousquet (“musket”).

• IPA^(key): /muskɛt/, [muˈsɡ̊ɛd̥]

musket c (singular definite musketten, plural indefinite musketter)

1. musket
2. (dialectal) A firearm in general.

• musket on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

• IPA^(key): /mʏsˈkɛt/
• Hyphenation: mus‧ket
• Rhymes: -ɛt

From Middle Dutch musket.

musket n (plural musketten, diminutive musketje n)

1. musket
2. Obsolete spelling of mosket

• musketkogel
• musketloop

musket n (uncountable)

1. hundreds and thousands, nonpareils, tiny sprinkles

• musketflik
• musketzaad

• muskett, muskete, muskytte, moskett, muscet, muskyte

Borrowed from Old Northern French mousket, borrowed itself from Italian moschetto.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmuskɛt/, /ˈmuskit/

musket (plural musketes)

1. A sparrowhawk or musket.

• English: musket

• “musket(e (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-10-03.