MUSKETRY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does musketry mean? 

• MUSKETRY (noun)
  The noun MUSKETRY has 2 senses:

1. musketeers and their muskets collectively

2. the technique of using small arms (especially in battle)

  Familiarity information: MUSKETRY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MUSKETRY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Musketeers and their muskets collectively

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("musketry" is a kind of...):

army unit (a military unit that is part of an army)

Meronyms (members of "musketry"):

musketeer (a foot soldier armed with a musket)

Domain category:

armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The technique of using small arms (especially in battle)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("musketry" is a kind of...):

proficiency; technique (skillfulness in the command of fundamentals deriving from practice and familiarity)

 Context examples 

Well, on the knoll, and enclosing the spring, they had clapped a stout loghouse fit to hold two score of people on a pinch and loopholed for musketry on either side.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)