amusette

From French amusette.

amusette (plural amusettes)

1. A light field cannon, or stocked gun mounted on a swivel.
2. wall gun

• “amusette”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• IPA^(key): /a.my.zɛt/

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amusette f (plural amusettes)

1. puzzle (enigma, question)
2. amusette (weapon)

• “amusette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.