musketo

musketo (plural musketos or musketoes)

1. Archaic form of mosquito.
   • 1782, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur, Letters from an American Farmer, page 53:

     This is the great chain which links us all, this is the picture which every province exhibits, Nova Scotia excepted. There the crown has done all; either there were no people who had genius, or it was not much attended to: the consequence is, that the province is very thinly inhabited indeed; the power of the crown in conjunction with the musketos has prevented men from settling there. Yet some parts of it flourished once, and it contained a mild harmless set of people. But for the fault of a few leaders, the whole were banished. The greatest political error the crown ever committed in America, was to cut off men from a country which wanted nothing but men!

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• IPA^(key): /musˈketo/
• Rhymes: -eto
• Hyphenation: mus‧ke‧to

musketo (accusative singular musketon, plural musketoj, accusative plural musketojn)

1. musket (gun)

   Synonym: muskedo

• pafilo
• fusilo

• IPA^(key): /musˈketo/

musketo (plural musketi)

1. musket (gun)

   Synonym: fusilo