| 单词 | nine-pounder |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnine-pounder nine-pounder n. a gun which fires nine-pound shells; (occasionally) a shell weighing nine pounds. 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 1713 Boston News-let. 29 Dec. 2/1 A Spanish Man of War of 20 Guns, Nine Pounders, Eight Patteraro's, and 216 Men well fitted for War. 1779 H. B. Dudley Flitch of Bacon I. 12 I've seen the field covered with Frenchmen's blood, and made so hot by our hissing nine-pounders—that one might have poach'd an egg in it! 1874 G. Bancroft Hist. U.S. X. xii. 271 Jones could use only three nine-pounders. 1989 P. O'Brian Thirteen-gun Salute vii. 211 He put the poker to the touch-hole of the first quarterdeck nine-pounder. < as lemmas |
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