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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1639-1693
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Carrabin(e, -bein, n. Also: carrabyne, carabin(e. [e.m.E. carabine (1605), -bin, F. carabine.] A fire-arm shorter than a musket; a carbine.1639 Johnston Diary 36.
To come either with carrabeins, hagbuts, pistols, or jacks and lances 1641 Acts V. 357/2.
Bodin in hoisteill maner with hagbutis, gunis, pistollis, carabines, swordis [etc.] 1644 Edinburgh Testaments LX. 379.
xx muskattes, hagbuttes, & carrabines with restes & bandeleiris c1650 Spalding I. 130.
He causit send to Holland for … moskat, carrabin, pistoll, … and all vther sort of necessar armes 1661 Nicoll Diary 325.
[They] did all of them ryde … with thair carrabynes upone thair horses saideles 1693 Edinburgh Testaments LXXX. 32.
Ane silver handled swoord with som gunes and carrabynes
