carbin

Updated: May 19, 2025

He also carried a sword and sometimes a pike, and thus heavily burdened with multitudinous arms and cumbersome armor, could never have run after or from an Indian with much agility or celerity; though he could stand at the church-door with his leather gun, an awe-inspiring figure, and he could shoot with his "harquebuss," or "carbin," as we well know.

Alice Morse Earle - Sabbath in Puritan New England