| 单词 | quartersling |
| 释义 | > as lemmasquarter-sling quarter-sling n. Nautical (now historical) one of the supports attached to a yard on either side of its centre. ΚΠ 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Quarter-Slings, are supports attached to a yard or other spar at one or both sides of (but not in) its centre. 1955 C. W. T. Layton Dict. Naut. Words & Terms 283 Quarter Slings, standing lifts of a yard, made of chain or rope, used in 16th century. quarter-sling d. Military. With the name of a piece of ordnance: designating a small size of the item specified, as quarter cannon, quarter-culverin, quarter-slang, quarter-sling, etc. (cf. half adj. 8). Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > piece of artillery > [noun] > small or short pieces murderer1495 curtala1509 minion1513 passe-volant1513 pikmoyane1513 saker1521 base1539 robinet1547 quarter cannon?a1549 bersec1550 murdresarc1550 yetling1558 battardc1565 demi-cannon1577 calabass1578 double curtal1582 demi-culverin1587 rabinet1596 murdering piece1601 drake1627 putter1646 cartow1650 putterlingc1650 minion drakea1661 cut1672 under-saker1678 murther1688 carronade1779 carthoun1849 ?a1549 Inventory Henry VIII (1998) I. 102/2 Ordinaunce Artillery Munycyons... Quarter slynges. a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) I. 251 Small artaillȝie, that is to say..quarter fallcouns, slingis [etc.]. 1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words at Quarto cannone A quarter Cannon, which is but weakely fortifide or mettalled. 1639 R. Ward Animadversions of Warre i. iv. xlv. 111 The Pellican or Bastard quarter-Culverin..the weight of her shot is 6.l...the weight of the Peece is 2550.l. 1684 J. P. von Valcaren Relation Siege Vienna 111 Quarter Cannon, each 12 pound 306. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Pellican The Name of an ancient Piece of Ordinance, equal to a Quarter-Culverin, and carrying a Ball of six Pounds. 1873 Amer. Cycl. 786/2 [Forty-eight, twenty-four, twelve, and six-pounders], called cannons, half cannons, quarter cannons, and falcons. 1997 W. C. Kirwin Powers Matchless ii. 50 At the fortress of Ancona there were examples of full cannon,..quarter cannon, culverin..and half culverin. < as lemmas |
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