Word: musketoons
Part of speech: Noun
Syllables: mus
ke
toons
Definition: Plural of musketoon. A firearm, similar to a musket but with a shorter barrel and a large bore.
Morphemes:
Affix: musket
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: A kind of firearm formerly carried by the infantry of an army, originally fired by means of a match, or matchlock, for which several mechanical appliances (including the flintlock, and finally the percussion lock) were successively substituted; ultimately superseded by the rifle.
Affix: -oon
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Forming nouns, mainly in borrowed words.
Etymology Compounds: Affix: -on
Language: fr
Decoded: -on
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Forming diminutives of things, including some animals.
Affix: -s
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form regular plurals of nouns.