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Definition of Hackbuts

1. hackbut [n] - See also: hackbut

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Hackbuts

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Literary usage of Hackbuts

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1. Gentlemen Errant: Being the Journeys and Adventures of Four Noblemen in by Nina Cust (1909)
"Thus at the siege of Leeuwarden (Keller's ed., p. 173) the citizens had a troop of mercenaries, who 'shot with hackbuts, which they laid on trestles ..."

2. Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII by Great Britain Public Record Office, John Sherren Brewer, Robert Henry Brodie, James Gairdner (1905)
"... and the Imperial Commissioners themselves ordered some guns or hackbuts arrested at Dunkirk, of which their English colleagues had spoken to them, ..."

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