musketry

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From musket +‎ -ry, after Italian moschetteria. Compare French mousqueterie.[1]

Noun

musketry (countable and uncountable, plural musketries)

  1. The technique of using small arms such as muskets.
  2. A collection of muskets or musketeers.
  3. 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.
    • 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 132:
      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.

References

  1. ^ “musketry, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
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