cascabeln.
/ˈkɑːskəbɛl//ˈkaskəbɛl/ 1. † b. called also cascabel deck. Obsolete.
a. Gunnery. Formerly the knob or pommel at the rear end of a cannon; now the whole rear part behind the base ring, including knob and base.
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1639 R. Ward Animadversions of Warre 129 The Center of the pummell or Caskable of the Peece.
1672 tr. Compleat Gunner i. iv. 5 in T. Venn Mil. & Maritine Discipline iii The Pumel or Button at her Coyl or Britch-end is called the Casacabel.
1795 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 85 439 A circular cavity..to receive the cascabel of the gun.
1797 Count Rumford in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 87 240 A cannon of metal..placed vertically upon its cascabel.
1858 W. Greener Gunnery in 1858 9 Furnished with trunnions, cascable, and touchhole.
1864 Daily Tel. 25 May The knob of the cascable.
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1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. v. xi. 48 (on engraving of a Gun) Casacabell deck.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Cascabel, the Pummel or hindermost round Knob at the Breach of a great Gun, by some called the Cascabel-deck.
2. A rattle-snake; also its rattle. [Spanish.]
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the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > types of snake > [noun] > family Viperidae (vipers) > subfamily Crotalinae > member of genus Sistrurus
rattlesnake1624
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prairie rattlesnake1817
rattler1827
massasauga1835
Mississauga rattler1843
mangrove cascabel1858
sidewiper1873
prairie rattler1878
ground rattler1908
the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > types of snake > [noun] > family Viperidae (vipers) > subfamily Crotalinae > genus or member of genus Crotalus > rattlesnake
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water rattle1832
mangrove cascabel1858
horned rattlesnake1870
sidewinder1875
prairie rattler1878
diamond rattlesnake1883
water rattler1888
diamond-back1907
timber rattler1936
the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > types of snake > [noun] > family Viperidae (vipers) > subfamily Crotalinae > member of genus Sistrurus > part of
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the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > types of snake > [noun] > family Viperidae (vipers) > subfamily Crotalinae > genus or member of genus Crotalus > rattlesnake > part of
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1758 J. Adams tr. A. de Ulloa Voy. S.-Amer. I. i. vii. 62 The cascabel or rattle-snake... At the end of its tail is the cascabel or rattle.
1852 T. Ross tr. A. von Humboldt Personal Narr. Trav. Amer. I. iv. 152 The Cascabel, or rattle-snake, the Coral, and other vipers.
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