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Definitions for Carbine
[1] a light, gas-operated semiautomatic rifle.
[2] (formerly) a short rifle used in the cavalry.
[3] a light automatic or semiautomatic rifle of limited range
[4] Also called: carabin , carabine a light short-barrelled shoulder rifle formerly used by cavalry
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Origin of Carbine
1595–1605; earlier carabine < Middle French: small harquebus, weapon borne by a carabin a lightly armed cavalryman, compared with (e)scarabin gravedigger for plague victims (< Provençal, akin to French escarbot cockchafer, dung beetle ≪ Latin scarabaeus scarab), though semantic change is unclear
Word origin for Carbine
C17: from French carabine, from Old French carabin carabineer, perhaps variant of escarrabin one who prepares corpses for burial, from scarabée, from Latin scarabaeus scarab