The name of a shoulder fired muzzle loading, flintlock which is usually, but not always, a smoothbore gun held in both hands. Note that 'Rifled Muskets' have been made and the main distingui [..]

A smoothbore firearm fired from the shoulder. Thrust from exploding powder shoots the bullet forward like a chest pass in basketball.

"firearm for infantry" (later replaced by the rifle), 1580s, from Middle French mousquette, also the name of a kind of sparrow-hawk, diminutive of mosca "a fly," from Latin musca ( [..]

firearm used from the 16th through the 19th centuries, similar to the modern rifle.

smooth-bored firearm used by the infantry. Most muskets were fired by a matchlock. Its weight meant that many had to use a rest while it was being fired.

Military firearm with long barrel and fore-end or forearm extending nearly to muzzle.

A large-caliber, smooth-bore firearm that was aimed and fired from the shoulder. The musket first appeared in Spain in the mid-1500s and remained in use, with improvements, until the 1850s.  It fired [..]

(n) a muzzle-loading shoulder gun with a long barrel; formerly used by infantrymen

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An older form of military long arm. Usually with a long barrel, a long forestock with barrel bands and a smooth bore, designed normally to shoot a single projectile.