Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - carbine
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Carbine
carbine
noun Etymology: French carabine, from Middle French carabin carabineer Date: 1592 1. a short-barreled lightweight firearm originally used by cavalry 2. a light short-barreled repeating rifle that is used as a supplementary military arm or for hunting in dense brush
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n. a short firearm, usu. a rifle, orig. for cavalry use. Etymology: F carabine (this form also earlier in Engl.), weapon of the carabin mounted musketeer ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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- 1590, from Fr. carabine, used of light horsemen and also of the weapon they carried, perhaps from O.Fr. escarrabin "corpse-bearer during the plague," lit. (probably) "carrion beetle," an epithet for archers from Flanders. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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