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City of M. co., Mich., on M. River; chartered 1861-70. It has extensive manufactures of lumber and iron. Pop., 1890, 22,702. Musket. Fire-arm for infantry soldiers, which succeeded the arquebuse. The first were match-locks, then wheel-locks, which were superseded by flint-lock and percu ion muskets. The term is retained for the rifled small-arm of the infantry soldier. The foot soldier so armed was formerly called a musketeer. Muskingum River. In Ohio; branch of the Ohio which it joins at Marietta. Length 112 m., drainage area 8,016. It is navigable to Dresden, 91 m.