Translation of Spingarde

[Dangun]

I know its slightly out of our period, but...

I was reading something from about 1718, describing Tibetan soldiers.
In the original Italian the word used was 'spingarde', but it was translated as musket.
I thought they were quite different, and that spingarde would have been almost archaic by the 18th century and so very likely means spingarde rather than musket.

Any thoughts?

[Duncan Head]

https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spingarda suggests that "spingarde" originally meant springald, but came to be used for firearms from at least Leonardo da Vinci's day. Might mean something like a wall-gun or a jezail rather than a musket, perhaps?

[Mick Hession]

Something like this, perhaps? I remember seeing something similar in 19th century photos of Tibetans, though the guns then were matchlocks, IIRC.   

https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQgDnFJmKi2JndOXMCYIJ9Qb7wo1M82WnYIrKgAODsEr2zLR0U3

Cheers
Mick