Harquebus \Har"que*bus\, Harquebuse \Har"que*buse\, n. [See
{Arquebus}.]
A firearm with match holder, trigger, and tumbler, made in
the second half of the 15th century. the barrel was about
forty inches long. A form of the harquebus was subsequently
called arquebus with matchlock.
harquebus
n : an obsolete firearm with a long barrel [syn: {arquebus}, {hackbut},
{hagbut}]