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musketry

NOUN
  1. the technique of using small arms (especially in battle)
  2. musketeers and their muskets collectively

How To Use musketry In A Sentence

  • Brent and I had seen to that when we refined her eye at musketry.
  • ‘Boys, do you hear that rattle of musketry and the roar of artillery? ‘he asked his soldiers.
  • Jules, who had found a sheep-pond in the dark a little lower down, gave what you might call a cinematograph reproduction o 'sporadic musketry. A Diversity of Creatures
  • The heavy guns are silent now, but the musketry is pouring on, making ghastly "music in the ear of night. Journal Kept During The Russian War: From The Departure Of The Army From England In April 1854, To The Fall Of Sebastopol
  • The days of a few weeks' drilling and musketry, then off to war, are long gone.
  • They met the same tempest of shell, grape, canister, and musketry, and recoiled.
  • In 1841 he entered the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst, followed by a commission in the Grenadier Guards where he developed a special interest in musketry.
  • Now and then, volleys of musketry, or a repulse from the Southern batteries on the heights, filled the blue morning sky with belching scarlet flame and smoke: through all, however, the long train of army-wagons passed over the pontoon-bridge, bearing the wounded. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863
  • Formations of pikemen repeatedly charged each other; the battle ended when a third army appeared and scattered the others with cannon fire and musketry. Weatherwatch: Puzzling phenomena of sky battles
  • Sixteen thousand men were trained daily in musketry. Canada and the Great War
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