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Synonyms for carbine


Grammar : Noun
Spell : kahr-been, -bahyn
Phonetic Transcription : ˈkɑr bin, -baɪn



Définition of carbine

Origin :
  • short rifle, 1580s, from French carabine (Middle French carabin), used of light horsemen and also of the weapon they carried, of uncertain origin, perhaps from Medieval Latin Calabrinus "Calabrian" (i.e., "rifle made in Calabria"). A less-likely theory (Gamillscheg, etc.) connects it to Old French escarrabin "corpse-bearer during the plague," literally (probably) "carrion beetle," said to have been an epithet for archers from Flanders.
  • As in musket : noun gun
Example sentences :
  • A chorus of night cries awoke to the sharp crack of a carbine.
  • Extract from : « The Law-Breakers » by Ridgwell Cullum
  • At last, by a sudden jerk, he succeeded in wresting his carbine from him.
  • Extract from : « The Fortune of the Rougons » by Emile Zola
  • But even if you had missed I had him covered with my carbine.
  • Extract from : « The Night Riders » by Ridgwell Cullum
  • As they approached the tan-vats he espied a carbine lying on the ground.
  • Extract from : « Three Years in the Federal Cavalry » by Willard Glazier
  • Lately, too, we have gone through a course of carbine instruction.
  • Extract from : « The Traitors » by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
  • He took me to a small room, where I saw my carbine and pistols.
  • Extract from : « The Memoires of Casanova, Complete » by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
  • The carbine had been fired; perhaps the bullet was in his brain.
  • Extract from : « The Long Roll » by Mary Johnston
  • I has a forty-four carbine, a forty-five rifle and a thirty rifle.
  • Extract from : « Left on the Labrador » by Dillon Wallace
  • Then he snapped down the visor of his helmet, unslung his carbine, and presented it.
  • Extract from : « A Slave is a Slave » by Henry Beam Piper
  • But all they had to depend upon now was the Major's carbine.
  • Extract from : « In Search of the Castaways » by Jules Verne

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