In the mean time, you may amuse yourself with my suspense, and put all the justices of peace in requisition, in case I come into your county with 'hackbut bent.'

On the Regent’s entry her men “discharged their volley of hackbuts,” probably to clear their pieces, a method of unloading which prevailed as late as Waterloo. 

A discharge of crossbows and hackbuts against the front of the church followed.

A kitchen jack leaned against a pyx, a republican sabre on a mediaeval hackbut.