Plural of hagbut; multiple early firearms or muskets from the 16th-17th centuries.
Standard English plural of 'hagbut,' from the Dutch-origin word. Military records show regiments being equipped with specified numbers of hagbuts and pikes.
Armies of the 1600s calculated battle tactics using ratios like 'two musketeers for every pikeman'—hagbuts were already making ancient pike-and-phalanx tactics obsolete.
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