hackbutter, hagbutter arch. and Hist.
(ˈhækbətə(r), ˈhæg-)
Also 6 haquebuter, Sc. hagbutar (-bitter).
[f. hackbut + -er: see prec.]
A soldier armed with a hackbut; a harquebusier.
| 1544–8 in Archæol. XXII. 69 There shall be 150 haquebuters, who shall have good haquebuts. 1548 Patten Exped. Scotl. in Arb. Garner III. 76 Captain of 200 Hackbutters on horseback. 1549 Compl. Scot. Epist. 6 He renforsit the toune vitht victualis, hagbutaris, ande munitions. a 1627 Hayward Edw. VI (1630) 24 Of the English one Spanish hackbutter was hurt. 1777 W. Nimmo Stirlingsh. xii. 292 The passage..was lined with an hundred Hagbutters. 1888 Trans. Glasgow Archæol. Soc. I. 283 Edinburgh had furnished the hagbutters of his army. |