Dictionary
Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
Tower musket en · NOUN
Meanings
-
A long firearm, notably the Brown Bess flintlock and the Pattern 1853 Enfield, inspected, produced, or marked by the Tower of London armory.
I also bought two tower muskets to satisfy my crew, who insisted on the necessity of being armed against attacks of pirates; and with spices and a few articles of food for the voyage nearly my last doit was expended.
1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 113:
Forms