| 单词 | cannon serpentine |
| 释义 | > as lemmascannon serpentine cannon serpentine n. now historical a large cannon, having a bore of 7.5 inches (approx. 19 cm) in diameter and typically capable of firing projectiles weighing 53.3 pounds (approx. 24.1 kg), often listed in inventories of 16th and 17th cent. cannonry: see sense 1b. ΚΠ 1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. xiv. 64 A Canon royal, or double Canon, a Canon, a Canon Serpentine, a bastard Canon, a demy Canon, a Canon Petro, a Culuering, a Basilisco, [etc.]. 1682 ‘Mother Greg’ Burgess Ticket Buckhaven 3 And for that effect the said Alexander Bryson be armed with Munsmegs, Morter-pieces, Cannon-royal, Cannon-ordinarie, Cannon Serpentine, [etc.] 1822 W. James Naval Hist. Great Brit. I. 16 We at once identify the gun to be either the cannon-serpentine or the bastard-cannon of sir William Monson. 1998 G. I. Brown Big Bang v. 59 By the end of the sixteenth century a wide variety of naval guns had been fitted into many different types of ship... There were cannons, cannons serpentine, bastard cannons, demi-cannons, cannons pedro, culverins, [etc.]. < as lemmas |
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