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carbine

a shoulder rifle with a short barrel

Not to be confused with:

carbon – a nonmetallic element

car·bine

(kär′bēn′, -bīn′)

A lightweight rifle with a short barrel.

[French carabine, from Old French carabin, soldier armed with a musket, perhaps from escarrabin, gravedigger, from scarabee, dung beetle; see scarab.]

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carbine

(ˈkɑːbaɪn)

1. (Firearms, Gunnery, Ordnance & Artillery) a light automatic or semiautomatic rifle of limited range

2. (Firearms, Gunnery, Ordnance & Artillery) Also called: carabin or carabine a light short-barrelled shoulder rifle formerly used by cavalry

[C17: from French carabine, from Old French carabin carabineer, perhaps variant of escarrabin one who prepares corpses for burial, from scarabée, from Latin scarabaeus scarab]

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car•bine

(ˈkɑr bin, -baɪn)

1. a light, gas-operated semiautomatic rifle.

2. any of various short-barreled muskets or rifles used, orig. by cavalry troops, since c1600.

[1595–1605; < Middle French carabine]

Translations

karabina

karabinek

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