[ad. vulgar Turkish tüfek (literary tufeng) musket: cf. Pers. tufak blow-pipe.] A (Turkish) musket.
1813. Byron, Giaour, viii. Though too remote for sound to wake In echoes of the far tophaike (note ‘Tophaike,’ musquet).
1816. Sporting Mag., XLVII. 285. Their coming was announced by the firing of their tophaikes.
1882. Savage-Armstrong, Garland fr. Greece, Last Sortie, 268.
| At my new-found foe I sprung, | |
| And clutched with both my hands the raised tophaike. |
