carbine
/ˈkɑɹ.bin/ noun C2- A rifle with a short barrel.
Plural carbines
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By the torchlight Dantès saw the glittering sabres and carbines of four gendarmes.
Hark ye, my friend, I have disobeyed my first order, but I will not disobey the second; and if you move, I will blow your brains out.” And he levelled his carbine at Dantès, who felt the muzzle against his temple.
The young man took his carbine and fired it in the air, but without any idea that the noise could be heard at the distance which separated the yacht from the shore.
“I said, my good fellow, that I would do more single-handed by the means of gold than you and all your troop could effect with stilettos, pistols, carbines, and blunderbusses included.
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