| 单词 | mortar-piece |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmortar-piece ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > firework > [noun] > contrivance for letting off mortar-piece1570 mortar1669 society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > piece of artillery > [noun] > mortar potgun?1470 mortar1547 mortar-piece1570 pot-piecea1578 bomb1684 coehorn1705 royal1743 royal mortar1867 mortar gun1997 1570 in E. D. Morgan & C. H. Coote Early Voy. Russia & Persia (1886) II. 360 They haue also a great many of morter pieces or potguns, out of which pieces they shoote wild fire. 1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII v. iii. 45 Hee stands there like a Morter-piece to blow vs. View more context for this quotation 1761 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy III. xxii. 115 They are two mortar-pieces for a siege next summer. 1893 Dict. National Biogr. XXXV. 209/2 The cannon..was presented by the Maclellans to James II,..and it was probably on this account that the family used as a crest a mortar-piece. < as lemmas |
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