musket pro of

Able to resist the force of a musket-ball. "Like the Indian's skull so tough, That, authors say, 'twas musket - proof ." Butler: Hudibras , ii. 1. musket-rest, s. A staff with a forked top on which the musket was rested before firing. musket-shot, s. 1. A ball or discharge from a musket. "He had narrowly escaped with life from a musket - shot fired at him in the street." -Macaulay : Hist . Eng . , ch. xii. 2. The distance to which a musket would project the ball.