英语词汇kentucky rifle的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	kentucky rifle
词源	Kentucky rifle. Famous in American history as the rifle of the pioneers, the long, extremely accurate Kentucky rifle is re- corded by this name as early as 1838. The flint-lock muzzlel- oader should, however, be called the Pennsylvania rifle, for it was first made in that state by Swiss gunsmiths in the 1730s and perfected there. “The British bayonet was no match for the Kentucky rifle,” wrote one early chronicler.
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