fusil
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At any hour of the day or night they are ready for battle: they tend their cattle on horseback, lance in hand, fusil in sling, and sabre in belt.
From Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6 Volume 2 by Évariste Régis Huc
Mr. Huntly armed himself with your fusil; Inglefield supplied me with a gun.
From Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker by Charles Brockden Brown
Lozenge, a four-cornered figure, differing from the fusil, being shorter and broader.
From Notes and Queries, Number 195, July 23, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by George Bell
The smoke of his fusil mingling with the smoke from the chimney, averted suspicion, and with the simple-minded creatures who heard the report and witnessed its effects the whole matter remained a mystery.
From Hansford: A Tale of Bacon's Rebellion by St. George Tucker
The fusil is like the lozenge, but narrower.
From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Mark Antony Lower
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