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musket rest
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Definition:A pole with a cradle that supported the musket while loading or firing.
image: By Viollet-le-Duc [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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The wattle wall the men had brought was set up in a semicircle by the Eighth Company as a shelter from the north, propped up by musket rests,
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace
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his small piece of service will bring him clean out of love with the soldier for ever. He will never come within the sign of it, the sight of a cassock, or a musket-rest again.
Ben Jonson. Every Man in his Humour
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