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🇰🇷Korean Source WordCode: KO

아르케부스

Native Script:한국어 한글

Pronunciation / Transliteration: areu-ke-bu-seu

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Arquebus/ˈɑːr.kwɪ.bəs/
nounCEFR C2 (Proficient)Top #14500 frequency
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🇰🇷 Example Sentence in Korean:

"중세 군인들은 아르케부스를 사용했습니다."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A portable flintlock or matchlock firearm supported on a tripod or hook, used in the 15th to 17th centuries.

    "The foot soldiers lined up on the ridge, aiming their heavy arquebuses toward the advancing cavalry."
  2. 2

    An early type of long gun that preceded the musket in European armies.

    "Historical reenactors carefully loaded black powder into the barrel of the antique arquebus."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Middle French arquebuse, which itself came from the Dutch haakbus, meaning hook gun (from haak, hook, and bus, box or gun barrel). The term evolved during the 15th century to describe an early form of muzzle-loaded firearm supported on a hook or tripod.

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