saltamartinon.
Obsolete.
A kind of ordnance: see quot. 1688.
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1684 R. Waller tr. Ess. Nat. Exper. Acad. del Cimento 145 We fitted upon a Carriage with Six Horses, a Saltamartino.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xviii. 138/1 The Saltamartino, a smal peece of the Venetians 15 diameters long and carrieth 4 pound ball.
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