musquetry

musquetry (uncountable)

1. Obsolete form of musketry.
   • 1710 September 6, The British Apollo: or, Curious Amusements for the Ingenious. To Which Are Added the Most Material Occurrences Foreign and Domestick., volume III, number 71:

     That Yeſterday they made there a great Feaſt, and the Burghers divided into 4 Companies of Train’d Bands in their beſt Acoutrements, made divers Diſcharges of the Muſquetry upon the great Market-place, where the Burgomaſter Harangu’d and Thank’d them in the Name of the Council of State for the Bravery which they had ſhewn for the Service of King Charles III.

   • 1799, Copies of Original Letters from the Army of General Bonaparte in Egypt, Intercepted by the Fleet under the Command of Admiral Lord Nelson, 2nd edition, part the second, London: […] J. Wright, page 60:

     The French were already close to the ruined walls which surround it, where they received a volley of musquetry and stones from the Arabs, and then mounted to the assault by two old breaches!

   • 1816, James Dalliba, Narrative of the Battle of Brownstown, Which Was Fought on the 9th of August 1812, During the Campaign of the North Western Army under the Command of Brigadier General Hull, New York, N.Y.: David Longworth, page 14:

     The musquetry was formed in two columns of single files, the regulars in front, and marched by tiles by the right of columns.

   • 1820, [Walter Scott], chapter XIII, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 276:

     “Regard not that, my brother,” answered Magdalen Græme; “the first successors of Saint Peter himself, were elected not in sunshine but in tempests—not in the halls of the Vatican, but in the subterranean vaults and dungeons of Heathen Rome—they were not gratulated with shouts and salvos of cannon-shot and of musquetry, and the display of artificial fire—no, my brother—but by the hoarse summons of Lictors and Prætors, who came to drag the Fathers of the Church to martyrdom. […]”