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单词 pot-piece
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pot-piecen.

Forms: see pot n.1 and piece n.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: pot n.1, piece n.
Etymology: < pot n.1 + piece n. Compare earlier potgun n.Compare also Older Scots potting piece , in the same sense (one isolated attestation; apparently < potting n.2 (compare quot. 1613 at sense 3a at that entry) + piece n.):c1600 Diurnal of Remarkable Occurrents (1833) 330 Thrie houlkis of Ingland, ladunit with ane cannone ryell, four singill cannounis, ix gross culveringis, four pottin peices.
Scottish. Obsolete.
A gun with a large bore, a mortar; = potgun n. 1.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > piece of artillery > [noun] > mortar
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a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) II. 301 Of the said xxxij thair was mony pot peices.
1637 R. Monro Exped. Scots Regim. ii. 214 Those peeces of Cannon that are farthest hard, are called pot-peeces or Mortiers.
a1686 J. Gordon Hist. Sc. Affairs (1841) III. 112 With a twelve moneths victwalls, with potte peeces, garnetts, and fyre workes.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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