fusil

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Avec son grand fusil d’argent En roulant, ma boule!”

From The Young Alaskans on the Trail by Hough, Emerson

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 Weekley, Ernest

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 Tucker, St. George

The Zeg-zeg troops had one French fusil, and the Kano force forty-one muskets.

From Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley by Kingston, William Henry Giles

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 Bell, George