| 单词 | half-pounder shot |
| 释义 | > as lemmashalf-pounder shot 1. A gun that fires a shot weighing half a pound; (also) a shot weighing half a pound. Frequently (and in earliest use) as a modifier, as half-pounder gun, half-pounder shot, etc. Cf. pounder n.4 1a. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > piece of artillery > [noun] > guns by weight of shot > of specific weight of shot fifteen-pounder1684 four-pounder1684 hundred-pounder1684 six-pounder1684 three-pounder1684 ten-pounder1695 nine-pounder1713 seven-pounder1762 long nine1780 half-pounder1800 twelve-pounder1801 sices1804 twelve1804 one-pounder1811 eighteen1834 eighteen-pounder1866 1740 London Evening-post 21–24 June Firing a half-pounder Shot out of a Swivel Gun, with two Drams of Powder. 1747 W. Mountaine Pract. Sea-gunner's Compan. 122 Wad Hooks with Rammers compleat, with Staves from 42 to half Pounders inclusive. 1756 G. Washington Let. 5 Aug. in Papers (1984) III. 326 This place..is not capable of an hours defence, if the enemy were to bring only one half-pounder against it. 1800 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 90 235 We charged a half-pounder swivel with an ounce and an half..of the mercurial powder. 1874 S. W. Baker Ismailïa I. xii. 408 The rifles: the little ‘Dutchman,’ two breechloading Reilly No. 8, two muzzle-loading Holland half-pounders, that carried an iron lead-coated explosive shell. 1975 Minnesota Hist. 44 204/2 Perhaps he fired his half-pounders in salute from the sailing vessel. 2000 Irish Amer. 31 May 94 Among the original weapons on display are a broadsword, a Highlander pistol, a Brown Bess musket and a half-pounder swivel gun. < as lemmas |
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