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‖ esclopette Obs. [var. of escopette: for the form cf. med.L. sclopētum.] (See quot.)1824 S. R. Meyrick Anc. Armour Gloss., Sclopus, the esclopette or hand-gun. 1830 ― Illust. Anc. Arms & Armour Plate cxix, Fig. 4. A short wheel-lock esclopette of the time of Charles I..It is..intended to be carried...
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sclopette Antiq. (skləʊˈpɛt) [ad. med.L. sclopettum, sclopētum, f. sclopus: see esclopette, escopette.] ‘A hand-culverin of the end of the fourteenth century’ (Cent. Dict. 1891).
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