English to afrikaans meaning of

'n karabyn is 'n kort, ligte geweer met 'n loop korter as dié van 'n standaardgeweer of musket. Dit word dikwels deur kavalleriesoldate gebruik, en is ontwerp om maklik in nou ruimtes te maneuver.

Sentence Examples

  1. He came last, clothed in his splendid robes and holding in his hand the carbine which your emperor presented him.
  2. The young shepherd stopped, as if his feet had been rooted to the ground then he put the butt of his carbine to his shoulder, took aim at the ravisher, followed him for a second in his track, and then fired.
  3. In France people fight with the sword or pistol, in the colonies with the carbine, in Arabia with the dagger.
  4. He bounded like a chamois, cocking his carbine as he went, and in a moment reached the summit of a hill opposite to that on which he had perceived the traveller.
  5. He had within his reach his pistols and carbine, and Ali, standing near him, held one of the small Arabian hatchets, whose form has not varied since the Crusades.
  6. Around him, and in groups, according to their fancy, lying in their mantles, or with their backs against a sort of stone bench, which went all round the columbarium, were to be seen twenty brigands or more, each having his carbine within reach.
  7. A sentinel struck the rings of his carbine against his left hand.
  8. It was a black Colt M4 Carbine, a weapon he had used many times, though never in real life.