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plural arquebuses or arquebusses
Alternative form of harquebus (“an obsolete matchlock firearm”). quotations examples
No one saw fire in the murk — as it might be, the match-flare for an arquebus.
2020, Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light, Fourth Estate, page 377
third-person singular simple present arquebuses, present participle arquebusing, simple past and past participle arquebused
(transitive, rare) To shoot with an arquebus.