Crossword-Solution: HAGBUT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Hagbut | n. | A harquebus, of which the but was bent down or hooked for convenience in taking aim. |
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| Obsolete firearm. | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
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greedy person
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Sentences with HAGBUT (5)
See Hagbut.] A sort of hand gun or firearm a contrivance answering to a trigger, by which the burning match was applied.
You are charged with firing off beacons without our privity or consent, thereby endangering the safety of the lord abbot, and the peaceable governing of this realm." He paused, quaking even at his own eloquence; but the stranger made no reply, till, throwing aside his cloak, he drew out a hagbut or demi-hague as it was sometimes called, being a sort of small harquebuss, with its match ready kindled.
The arquebus constructed in this manner was used in England in the time of Henry VIII., and was variously called haquebut, hakebut, hagbut, and hagbus, names all derived from the hooked shape of the butt.
See Hagbut.] Defn: A sort of hand gun or firearm a contrivance answering to a trigger, by which the burning match was applied.
With a steel cap on his head, a jack slung over his shoulders, a pistol or hagbut at his belt, he was ever ready for the fray, and prepared to give or take the hardest blows.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1957).