a gun throwing a shot that weighs fifteen pounds.
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| 释义 | society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > piece of artillery > [noun] > guns by weight of shot > of specific weight of shot (16) fifteen-pounder1684 a gun throwing a shot that weighs fifteen pounds. four-pounder1684 (a) a gun to carry a four-pound shot; (b) a loaf four pounds in weight. hundred-pounder1684 a cannon firing shot weighing a hundred pounds each (see pounder, n.2). six-pounder1684 A cannon throwing shot six pounds in weight. three-pounder1684 a thing weighing three pounds; a gun firing a three-pound ball. ten-pounder1695 A cannon throwing a ten-pound shot. nine-pounder1713 a gun which fires nine-pound shells; (occasionally) a shell weighing nine pounds. seven-pounder1762 A gun which fires shells weighing seven pounds. Now chiefly historical. long nine1780 A relatively long-barrelled gun for firing nine-pound cannonballs or shells, formerly in naval use. half-pounder1800 A gun that fires a shot weighing half a pound. (In quot. 1800 attrib.) Cf. four-pounder n., etc. twelve-pounder1801 a cannon which discharges shot weighing twelve pounds. sices1804 plural. In various elliptic uses. Six-pounder guns. twelve1804 A thing characterized in some way by the number twelve; e.g. a twelve-pounder, or a twelve-bore, gun (see compounds 2), a candle weighing twelve to… one-pounder1811 (a) a gun that fires one-pound shells; (b) a one-pound note or coin. eighteen1834 quasi-n.= eighteen-pounder n. at compounds 2). eighteen-pounder1866 a gun throwing a shot that weighs eighteen pounds. |
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