单词 | cannoneer |
释义 | cannoneern. An artilleryman who is responsible for the laying and firing of cannon or heavy artillery; a gunner. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by branch of army > [noun] > artilleryman gunner1344 bombardier1562 cannoneer1562 artilleryman?1566 engineer1569 artillerist1579 bombarder1583 topchee1623 fireman1625 zumboorukchee1840 culverineer1881 red-leg1890 gun1896 horse gunner1896 society > armed hostility > warrior > armed man > [noun] > one armed with or using firearm > artilleryman gunner1344 cannoner1517 bombardier1562 cannoneer1562 artilleryman?1566 engineer1569 artillerist1579 bombarder1583 topchee1623 fireman1625 pyrobolist1696 zumboorukchee1840 culverineer1881 red-leg1890 gun1896 mud hog1918 1562 J. Shute tr. A. Cambini in Two Comm. Turcks i. f. 61 He commaunded his maister Cannoniers to discharge all their artillerie at one Instante vpon them. 1590 C. Marlowe Tamburlaine: 2nd Pt. sig. H5v To saue our Cannoniers from musket shot. 1642 S. D'Ewes Jrnl. 10 Jan. (1942) 398 Certaine Hamletters..informed us of some of the canoneers in the Tower to be dangerous men. 1674 J. Wallis Let. in S. P. Rigaud & S. J. Rigaud Corr. Sci. Men 17th Cent. (1841) (modernized text) II. 588 Practical cannoneers..find the random of a bullet very different from the parabola. 1716 J. Perry State of Russia 278 He is..a compleat Soldier; besides his being Engineer, Cannoneer..Gun-founder, Blacksmith, etc. 1795 in Ld. Nelson Dispatches & Lett. (1846) VII. Introd. 77 Ordnance stores for the siege, and cannoniers. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. 244 The Irish cannoneers stood gallantly to their pieces. 1883 Harper's Mag. Aug. 405/1 I could see the figures of the cannoneers working like shadowy demons. 1927 R. J. Casey (title) The cannoneers have hairy ears: a diary of the front lines. 1969 Bluefield (W. Va.) Daily Tel. 15 June 13/5 A cannoneer in Battery B,..Spec. 4 Forbes entered the army in June 1968. 2014 Wall St. Jrnl. 8 Nov. a1/2 In combat, the No. 4 cannoneer on an artillery crew must heave 100-pound rounds, one after another, into the loading tray of a 155 mm howitzer. Derivatives cannoˈneering n. the laying and firing of cannon or heavy artillery. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > management of artillery > [noun] > discharge of artillery cannon shot1567 cannonrya1583 cannoning1583 girding?c1600 cannoneering1699 playing1711 ball-firing1783 1699 J. Bouvet Hist. Cang-Hy 80 He caused..many of his Subjects to be instructed in the Management of the Great Artillery, as well for Cannoneering as Bombarding of places. 1756 E. Burke Vindic. Nat. Society 33 The present Perfection of Gunnery, Cannoneering, Bombarding.., and all these Species of artificial..Cruelty. 1851 J. Edgar Boy-princes 81 The Dauphin, seeing with regret the destruction of so fine a place, ordered the cannoneering to be stopped. 1918 A. G. S. Gorgas Half Three Score Years & Ten 150 There were flashes of lightning, succeeded by supreme darkness, and the thunderbolts were as the echoes of cannoneering. 2002 Jrnl. Hist. Ideas 63 380 His ‘new science’ of cannoneering was aimed at aristocratic patrons and drew on textual sources which included Aristotelian physics. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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