musket
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A family tree hangs in the boardroom and some of the company’s oldest weapons, including a musket from 1830, are displayed in an archive of more than 1,500 pieces.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 16, 2026
I would not have walked into a coffee shop with an AR-15 and expected the reactions I got for walking in with a musket, for one thing.
From Slate • May 8, 2024
For decades speculation has been rife about whether the pillars do actually bear the scars of the musket balls from nearly two hundred years ago.
From BBC • Nov. 12, 2023
Would there be any musket balls, messages from students, or clues to historical mysteries?
From Seattle Times • Aug. 28, 2023
No sooner had I plunged into the river and, with convulsive strokes, my hand still holding my musket above the water, set out to cross it, than I saw Olakunde following Bono.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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