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Meaning of musketry | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. The technique of using small arms such as muskets.
    countable, uncountable
  2. A collection of muskets or musketeers.
    countable, uncountable
  3. Musket fire.
    countable, uncountable

Examples

“A heavy trampling of steps—clashing as if of swords—several rounds of musketry—screams—shouts—rose in the direction of the court.”
“Nor was this less ominous than the rattle of musketry, for it suggested but a single solution to the little band of rescuers—that the illy garrisoned village had already succumbed to the onslaught of a superior force.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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