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or Carabineer. Properly a skirmisher or light horseman, from the Arabic carabine. A carbine is the light musket used by cavalry soldiers.
“He … left the Rhinegrave, with his company of mounted carbineers, to guard the passage.”—Motley: Dutch Republic (vol. i. part i. chap., ii. p. 179).
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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