Definition for MUS-KET-OON'

MUS-KET-OON', n. [Fr. mousqueton. See Musket.]

  1. A short thick musket, carrying five ounces of iron, or seven and a half of lead; the shortest kind of blunderbuss. Encyc.
  2. One who is armed with a musketoon. Herbert.

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