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Carbine

//ˈkɑɹ.bin// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A rifle with a short barrel.

    ""Caught at last, and by those rascally Roundheads, whom you call patriots and saints, in a few minutes more I shall be shot—that is, if their clumsy carbines take good aim—to be sure they can fire near enough their mark not to miss..."

  2. 2
    light automatic rifle wordnet

Etymology

Ca. 1600, from French carabine. Doublet of carabine.

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