Meaning & use
Caliver
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A light, portable matchlock musket used by infantry soldiers in the 16th and 17th centuries.
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The re-enactors demonstrated how soldiers loaded and fired a caliver.
Historians describe the caliver as an early, lighter alternative to the heavier arquebus.
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The word likely derives from "calibre," since calivers were originally muskets built to a standard bore size.
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