musketry

noun

mus·​ket·​ry ˈmə-skə-trē 

1

: muskets

2

: musketeers

3

a

: musket fire

b

: the art or science of using small arms especially in battle

Examples of musketry in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Its scenes unfurled in a cavalcade of musketry, air-bursting shells, houses ablaze, and clusters of mounted Union soldiers tumbling over Confederate breastworks. —Elliot Ackerman, Harper's Magazine, 16 Mar. 2021

Soon my father found the dining table stacked with volumes from the Inner Sunset library: books on famous battles, biographies of Grant and Sherman, guides to uniforms and musketry. —Daniel Mason, The Atlantic, 6 Apr. 2020

Word History

First Known Use

1646, in the meaning defined at sense 1