English

hookgun

From hook + gun.

A compound of hook + gun

Proto-Germanic *hōkaz

Proto-West Germanic *hōk

Old English hōc ‘hook’

Middle English hoke

English hook

Middle English gunne

English gun

Today it means

noun a harquebus

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