| 单词 | cannoneering |
| 释义 | > as lemmascannoˈneering 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. < as lemmas |
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