"hagbutter" meaning in English

See hagbutter in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: hagbutters [plural]
Etymology: hagbut + -er Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|hagbut|er|id2=occupation}} hagbut + -er Head templates: {{en-noun}} hagbutter (plural hagbutters)
  1. A soldier armed with a hagbut or arquebus. Synonyms: hackbutter
    Sense id: en-hagbutter-en-noun-2ittkxMt Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -er (occupation)

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for hagbutter meaning in English (1.6kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "hagbut",
        "3": "er",
        "id2": "occupation"
      },
      "expansion": "hagbut + -er",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "hagbut + -er",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hagbutters",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "hagbutter (plural hagbutters)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -er (occupation)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1864, James Paterson, History of the Counties of Ayr and Wigton: Carrick",
          "text": "At the foot of the bog there were a number of turf dykes , to which the hagbutters on both sides rode , the one taking possession of the head of them , and the other the foot . Here the firing commenced , the earl's men shooting first",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1937, Robert Gore-Browne, Lord Bothwell and Mary, Queen of Scots: A Study of the Life […]",
          "text": "Supplementing Lord Borthwick's guardianship of the Queen with the chaperonage of one hundred and fifty hagbutters, the Duke left the Castle by night at the head of fifty hagbutters and as many friends as he could collect.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A soldier armed with a hagbut or arquebus."
      ],
      "id": "en-hagbutter-en-noun-2ittkxMt",
      "links": [
        [
          "soldier",
          "soldier"
        ],
        [
          "hagbut",
          "hagbut"
        ],
        [
          "arquebus",
          "arquebus"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "hackbutter"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "hagbutter"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "hagbut",
        "3": "er",
        "id2": "occupation"
      },
      "expansion": "hagbut + -er",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "hagbut + -er",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hagbutters",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "hagbutter (plural hagbutters)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms suffixed with -er (occupation)",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1864, James Paterson, History of the Counties of Ayr and Wigton: Carrick",
          "text": "At the foot of the bog there were a number of turf dykes , to which the hagbutters on both sides rode , the one taking possession of the head of them , and the other the foot . Here the firing commenced , the earl's men shooting first",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1937, Robert Gore-Browne, Lord Bothwell and Mary, Queen of Scots: A Study of the Life […]",
          "text": "Supplementing Lord Borthwick's guardianship of the Queen with the chaperonage of one hundred and fifty hagbutters, the Duke left the Castle by night at the head of fifty hagbutters and as many friends as he could collect.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A soldier armed with a hagbut or arquebus."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "soldier",
          "soldier"
        ],
        [
          "hagbut",
          "hagbut"
        ],
        [
          "arquebus",
          "arquebus"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "hackbutter"
    }
  ],
  "word": "hagbutter"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-04 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (e9e0a99 and db5a844). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.