musketry

noun

Etymology: From musket + -ry, after Italian moschetteria. Compare French mousqueterie.

1. The technique of using small arms such as muskets.

   “"Nickle will never make a reliable shot," confided Mr. Carrados to the little band of paralysed listeners. "He always takes sight too low—fault of British army musketry training. […]"”

2. A collection of muskets or musketeers.
3. Musket fire.

   “A heavy trampling of steps—clashing as if of swords—several rounds of musketry—screams—shouts—rose in the direction of the court.”

   “Nor was this less ominous than the rattle of musketry, for it suggested but a single solution to the little band of rescuers—that the illy garrisoned village had already succumbed to the onslaught of a superior force.”