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carbine
/ˈkɑɹ.bin/
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What does carbine mean?
noun
- A rifle with a short barrel.
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He remarked that every horseman carried a carbine slung across his shoulders and pistols in his holsters.
My carbine was in its boot, strapped to my saddle, and as my horse had wandered off I was left without means of defense.
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We have none of these in Behar, but the huge porpoise gives splendid rifle or carbine practice as he rolls through the turgid streams.
I took a native tracker with me, so that I was free to keep a good look-out, while Mahina followed immediately behind with a Martini carbine.
It was the unmistakable noise of a pistol or carbine or some light firearm discharged; but it was not this that puzzled him most.