Meaning of fusil | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A bearing of a rhomboidal figure, originally representing a spindle in shape, longer than a heraldic lozenge.
2. A light flintlock musket or firelock.
   historical

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Examples

“[H]e out of meer wantonness attempted to trip up the heels of the soldier that stood next him, but failed in the execution, and received a blow of his breast with the butt end of a fusil, that made him stagger several paces backward.”

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