单词 | devil-cart |
释义 | > as lemmasdevil-cart ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > gun carriage > [noun] stock1496 carriage1562 sea-carriage1669 gun-carriage1769 devil carriage1794 devil-cart1797 sleigh1797 galloper carriage1802 garrison-carriage1872 galloping carriage1883 1797 Ld. Nelson Let. 6 June in Dispatches & Lett. (1846) VII. Addenda p. cxxxix I want..two or three artillerymen..to fix the fusees, and a devil-cart. 1827 J. T. Jones Jrnls. Sieges Spain (ed. 2) II. 454 Two travelling forges. Seven field service limbers, and one battery. One devil cart. 1877 Textbk. Fortification & Mil. Engin. (Woolwich Royal Mil. Acad.) ii. 49 Timber felled in making clearings has often to be removed for defensive use; any wagons are convenient for carrying small trees and brushwood, but for heavy logs devil-carts are best. < as lemmas |
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