fusil
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Cotgrave has arquebuse à fusil, "a snaphaunce," and explains fusil as "a fire-steele for a tinder-box."
From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Ernest Weekley
These animals never barked: I should have entered unaware of my danger, and my fate could scarcely have been averted by my fusil.
From Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker by Charles Brockden Brown
Alexis, meanwhile, had dropped his rifle and taken up the fusil of Pouchskin.
From Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt by Johann Baptist Zwecker
Of the fusil Nisbet writes: "The fusil is another Rhombular figure like the lozenge, but more long than broad, and its upper and lower points are more acute than the two side points."
From Notes and Queries, Number 210, November 5, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by George Bell
One of the travellers, seeing himself without any thing to do, took his fusil and followed the course of this rivulet, in hopes of killing some game.
From History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing by Le Page du Pratz
