| 单词 | field piece |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfield piece field piece n. = field gun n. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > piece of artillery > [noun] > light pieces falcon1496 falconet15.. field piece1544 fowler1548 fielding piece1565 falcon shot1598 field cannon1638 field gun1645 field culverin1659 galloper1746 Napoleon1862 1544 in E. Lodge Illustr. Brit. Hist. (1838) I. 105 Bastard culverins..besides other small field pieces, falcons, and bases. c1650 J. Spalding Memorialls Trubles Scotl. & Eng. (1850) I. 167 Felt Marshall Leslie..marchit from Abirdene with the foot army south, and the field peces also. 1762 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy V. xix. 82 'Tis a pity..that we have not a couple of field pieces to mount in the gorge of that new redoubt. 1898 Cosmopolitan July 344 A pneumatic gun, weighing no more than a light field-piece..was tried before an army and navy board more than a year ago. 1944 Fortune Mar. 89/1 (advt.) If we had put the heat on Congress to..teach a million kids every year how to be handy with a field piece or a bayonet. 2003 Evening Standard (Nexis) 20 Mar. 8 One barrage came from a forward position occupied by British artillerymen using AS90 self-propelled guns, the largest field piece in the Army's arsenal. < as lemmas |
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