A type of firearm or musket that is half the size or power of a full hagbut.
From 'demi-' (half) + 'hagbut,' an early term for arquebus or musket, possibly from Dutch 'haakbus' meaning hook gun. A demihagbut would be a lighter, less powerful version of this early firearm.
Early firearms had wonderfully strange names as different European languages competed to describe this revolutionary technology—'hagbut' sounds like a monster but was actually cutting-edge military tech, and 'demihagbut' shows gunmakers creating lighter versions for non-combatants.
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