musket
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A gun's rear sight and a musket side plate found nearby offer some support for that interpretation.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 22, 2026
Technology is a part of war’s landscape; it separates the 21st century from the eras of the Brown Bess musket, the bronze cannon and the M-1 Garand rifle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
Questions aside, a musket can come in handy.
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
Clutching my musket, I ran back toward him; and was stopped in my progress by Pro Bono, who, sensible of the pause in my flight, had returned to see what delayed me.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
That logic propagated from muskets to sewing machines and farm equipment, eroding craft economics and laying the groundwork for the modern assembly line.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
A musket ball is a type of ammunition used in muskets, which are long-barrelled, muzzle-loaded firearms that were commonly used from the 16th to the 19th centuries.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2024
With muskets drawn, Napoleon asks the chambers, “Shall we vote?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 10, 2024
FREDERICKSBURG, Va. — The “crossroads of the Civil War,” as Virginia’s Spotsylvania County calls itself, is once again a cauldron of hostilities, this time minus the muskets.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 5, 2023
Namontack tells us how the Englishmen kept up a guard half the night, standing with their muskets ready.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
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