Definition of carbine in English:

carbine

noun

1A light automatic rifle.
- ‘The most common Arisaka models one comes across today at shows are the long rifles, short rifles, and carbines.’
- ‘Several buildings were examined and stores of grenades, Russian and Chinese machine guns, automatic carbines, uniforms and military equipment, including a tonne of ammunition, were found.’
- ‘But as the war progressed the bolt action rifle was increasingly supplemented, or replaced, by carbines and by a variety of other automatic and semi-automatic firearms.’
- ‘Armalite offers a comprehensive line of .223, .243 and .308 caliber rifles and carbines.’
- ‘One of such newly developed weapons for airborne forces of Nazi Germany were light carbines that could use standard ammunition.’
- ‘Pistol-caliber semiautomatic carbines are light and handy, particularly easy for smaller or weaker people to deploy.’
- ‘A large part of Beretta's advertising campaign has been the ability to convert the Neos from a pistol to a light carbine without any tools, however, so far there has been no word on availability or price of this upgrade.’
- ‘Mainly there are modern weapons in the game - weapons that were present-day in 1978: knives, pistols, shotguns, carbines, sniper rifles.’
- ‘These included a shortened carbine, a sniper rifle, a belt-fed light machine gun, and a heavy-barreled squad automatic weapon.’
- ‘What was needed was a carbine or a short-barreled rifle that would fire an intermediate-weight cartridge and was capable of full automatic fire.’
- ‘He joined in with automatic fire from his carbine and threw grenades at the enemy, whose attacks were accompanied by bugles, whistles, flares and supporting mortar bursts.’
- ‘Seventy-five city policemen and Mississippi State Police officers armed with carbines, submachine guns, shotguns, service revolvers and some personal weapons, responded to the call.’
- ‘Some people think fighting with a sniper rifle is somehow entirely different than fighting with a carbine, handgun or a shotgun.’
- ‘If the family is in the safe room and the intruders are kicking down that door, the carbine, rifle or shotgun comes into its own.’
- ‘In answer, many departments, individual officers and armed civilians have turned to semi-automatic rifles or carbines in either pistol calibers or .223 for use as tactical long guns.’
- ‘There stood eight CIA operatives, dressed in black, holding various submachine guns and assault carbines.’
- ‘The pistol-caliber carbine, with its light recoil and mild report, offers an intimidating appearance when seen by a burglar at gunpoint.’
- ‘By simply changing the barrel or adding a bipod the AUG can change from a conventional rifle to an assault rifle, carbine, or light machine gun.’
- ‘All four Crusader Blue tanks engaged the enemy on both sides of the road with coax,.50-caliber, and M240 loader's machine guns, M4 carbines, and M9 pistols.’
- ‘While you can look for a lot more PDs to swap shotguns for rifles and carbines, the wave of the future may be stocking each vehicle with shotgun and compact auto rifle.’
1. 1.1historical A short rifle or musket used by cavalry.
  ‘The infantry of both armies in the Civil War for the first time used muzzle-loading rifled muskets, while cavalry with breech-loading carbines fought dismounted.’
  ‘The introduction of the percussion lock in the early 19th century did little for the design of the military pistol and it was being replaced by the carbine by mid-century, pistols being reserved solely for issue to senior NCOs.’
  ‘One of the most distinctive, interesting and fairly common models of the Carcano is the Cavalry carbine.’
  ‘They shouldered responsibility, faith and idealism along with muskets, carbines and courage.’
  ‘The 7th Cavalry, with single-shot carbines, was quite simply outgunned by the Indians who had repeating rifles.’