fusil

Example Sentences

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But no Proto-Indo-European word can be reconstructed for “gun,” which uses different roots in different modern Indo-European languages: “gun” in English, “fusil” in French, “ruzhyo” in Russian, and so on.

From Literature

A cross, engrailed or indented, the words being used indifferently, is a cross so deeply notched at the edges that it seems made up of so many lozenge-shaped wedges or fusils.

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The fusil is like the lozenge, but narrower.

From Project Gutenberg

To prevent suspicion, the officer in command had orders to make every sentinel he set or relieved in the night-time fire his fusil and to beat his drum at the usual hour.

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During the skirmishes that had already occurred, we noticed that many of the Indians were armed with fusils and muskets.

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