| 单词 | parrott gun |
| 释义 | > as lemmasParrott gun In full Parrott gun. A cast iron, muzzle-loading, rifled cannon with the breech reinforced with wrought iron rings. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > piece of artillery > [noun] > other pieces of ordnance bombardc1430 ribaudequin1443 stock-gun1465 seven sistersa1529 chamber1540 bastard1545 chamber piece1547 volger1548 dogc1550 battardc1565 long shot1595 quarter piece1625 pelican1639 monkey1650 spirol1653 stock-fowler1669 saltamartino1684 smeriglio1688 botcarda1700 carriage gun1723 Lancaster1857 Armstrong1860 wire gun1860 Columbiad1861 Parrott1861 wedge-gun1876 truck-gun1883 motor cannon1889 Black Maria1914 Jack Johnson1914 supergun1915 flak1938 1861 E. A. Duyckinck National Hist. War for Union 383/2 The position of the enemy's battery was ascertained by the replies to the fire of the Parrott guns. 1898 A. C. Parkerson How Uncle Sam Fights xxxviii. 346 There is a supplementary list of gunboats ‘for service in Cuban waters’—the Hernan Cortes, 300 tons, one 5.12-inch Parrott gun, 12 knots. 1911 M. Johnston Long Roll vii. 73 Nearly all fell short, but one, a shell from a thirtypounder Parrott, entered the pine wood by Mitchell's Ford. 1963 Mil. Affairs 27 82/1 Most common among the rifled cannon used for river and coastal fighting were the thirty and one-hundred-pounder Parrotts. 2002 Jrnl. News (Westchester County, N.Y.) (Nexis) 16 Aug. 1 a By the end of the Civil War, the federal government had purchased from the foundry 925 Parrott guns, 759 other types of cannons and 1.3 million projectiles at a cost of $3.2 million. < as lemmas |
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