Carbine Definition

kärbēn, -bīn
carbines
noun
A rifle with a short barrel, orig. for use by cavalry.
Webster's New World
A light, semiautomatic or automatic rifle of relatively limited range.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Carbine

Noun

Singular:
carbine
Plural:
carbines

Origin of Carbine

  • French carabine from Old French carabin soldier armed with a musket perhaps from escarrabin gravedigger from scarabee dung beetle scarab

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From French carabine

    From Wiktionary

Carbine Sentence Examples

  • Switch over to the carbine and start shooting.

  • He remarked that every horseman carried a carbine slung across his shoulders and pistols in his holsters.

  • The cavalry weapons are a straight sword (that of the heavy cavalry is illustrated in the article SWORD), a bamboo lance and the Lebel carbine.

  • It is the first British short assault carbine into service, it will not be the last.

  • This carbine has no handguards and the sling swivels are mounted on the left side of the stock.

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Words Starting With

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