musketry
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editmusketry (countable and uncountable, plural musketries)
- The technique of using small arms such as muskets.
- A collection of muskets or musketeers.
- Musket fire.
- 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, pages 251–252:
- A heavy trampling of steps—clashing as if of swords—several rounds of musketry—screams—shouts—rose in the direction of the court.