hackbut
IPA: hˈækbʌt
noun
- Obsolete form of arquebus.
Examples of "hackbut" in Sentences
- Report this comment] Posted by: hackbut on Sep 27, 2009 5: 35 PM
- A kitchen jack leaned against a pyx, a republican sabre on a mediaeval hackbut.
- In the mean time, you may amuse yourself with my suspense, and put all the justices of peace in requisition, in case I come into your county with 'hackbut bent.'
- Halbert was aye skipping up and down like a roo, and his brother used to sit in the chimney nook with his book and sic-like trash -- But the lad was like a loaded hackbut, which will stand in the corner as quiet as an old crutch until ye draw the trigger, and then there is nothing but flash and smoke.
- Halbert was aye skipping up and down like a roo, and his brother used to sit in the chimney nook with his book and sic-like trash — But the lad was like a loaded hackbut, which will stand in the corner as quiet as an old crutch until ye draw the trigger, and then there is nothing but flash and smoke. —