harquebusier, arquebusier
(ˌhɑː-, ˌɑːkwɪbəˈsɪə(r))
Forms: α. 6 hargu-, harquebutier. β. 7 hargubisheer. γ. 6– harquebusier, (6 harke-, hargabusier, hargubuzier, 9 harquebussier). δ. 7 arcabuzier, 7– arquebusier.
[a. 16th c. F. arcabusier (1533), (h)arquebusier -butier, f. (h)arquebus, harquebus. See also the earlier equivalents hackbushier, hackbutter, -buteer.]
A soldier armed with a harquebus.
| 1548 Acts Privy Counc. (1890) II. 202 For the wages of cc harquebutiers. 1553–4 Q. Jane & Q. Mary (Camden) 45, vij hagabusyars of Wyats company. 1555 Eden Decades 288 A band of hargabusiers on horsbacke. 1568 Dk. Norfork in Campbell Love-lett. Mary Q. Scots (1824) 17 Two hundred harkebusiers being in the court. 1578 T. N. tr. Conq. W. India 39 His Hargabushiers and Crossebowmen. 1579 Digges Stratiot. 82 The Harquebuzier with a light Brigandine. 1611 Cotgr., Haquebutier, an Arquebusier, or small shot. 1633 T. Stafford Pac. Hib. ii. xxi. (1810) 418 And gaue occasion of skirmish..with some hundred hargubisheers. 1656 Blount Glossogr., Arcabuzier. 1670 Cotton Espernon i. iii. 108 Three hundred Harquebusiers on Horse-back. 1800 Hist. Europe in Ann. Reg. 175/2 Sixteen arquebuziers to each regiment. 1825 Southey in Q. Rev. XXXII. 387 Bayard..would give no quarter to harquebussiers. 1858 Motley Dutch Rep. ii. 272 Arquebusiers, spearsmen and halberdmen. |