单词 | twenty-eight-pounder |
释义 | > as lemmastwenty-eight-pounder twenty-eight-pounder n. (also twenty-four-pounder, twenty-five-pounder, twenty-six-pounder, twenty-thousand-pounder, etc.) ΚΠ 1684 J. P. von Valcaren Relation Siege Vienna 108 Twenty four pounder. 1684 J. P. von Valcaren Relation Siege Vienna 109 Twenty eight pounders. 1684 J. P. von Valcaren Relation Siege Vienna 109 Twenty six pounders. 1756 Connoisseur No. 121. ⁋6 A careful old gentleman came..to marry his son, and was recommended..to a twenty thousand pounder. 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine at Cannon A piece that discharges a ball of twenty-four pounds, is called a twenty-four-pounder. a1944 K. Douglas Alamein to Zem Zem (1946) 10 25-pounders and quads, Bofors guns in pits with their crews lying beside them. 1983 J. Masters Man of War xx. 264 Now came the first shell from the 25-pounders. < as lemmas |
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