: the art or science of using small arms especially in battle
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the WebIts scenes unfurled in a cavalcade of musketry, air-bursting shells, houses ablaze, and clusters of mounted Union soldiers tumbling over Confederate breastworks. Elliot Ackerman, Harper's Magazine, 16 Mar. 2021 Soon my father found the dining table stacked with volumes from the Inner Sunset library: books on famous battles, biographies of Grant and Sherman, guides to uniforms and musketry. Daniel Mason, The Atlantic, 6 Apr. 2020