The earliest kind of cannon, usually throwing a stone ball or a very large shot.

A piece of heavy medieval artillery consisting of a number of cannon on a wheeled armed platform. Also applied to a type of powerful crossbow on a…

(cf. stock-fowler n.).

British History. Seven cannons, said to resemble each other in size and design, cast by Robert Borthwick for King James IV of Scotland and used at…

A piece of ordnance; esp. a small gun or mortar used to fire salutes. Obsolete.

Originally Scottish. Short for bastard culverin n. at compounds 1. Cf. battard, n. Now historical and rare.

= sense 9b.

A species of ordnance, longer and less powerful than the bombard.

Scottish. A type of early cannon. Obsolete.

= bastard, n., or culverin bastard, a small cannon. Similarly battard-falcon, a kind of cannon.

Long-barrelled guns; (hence, by extension) a group of soldiers armed with such guns. Obsolete. rare.

Nautical. A piece of ordnance placed on the quarter (quarter, n. 24a) of a vessel. Obsolete. rare.

A type of cannon taking a six-pound shot; the shot from such a gun. Obsolete.

A kind of gun or cannon; (perhaps) = drake, n.1 3. Obsolete.

A kind of cannon (see quot. 1653).

a kind of cannon or mortar (cf. stock-gun n. and fowler, n.1 3).

A kind of ordnance: see quot. 1688.

A certain piece of ordnance.

Apparently an error for battard, n.

(on a ship) a gun or cannon mounted on a gun carriage, as opposed to on a swivel (swivel, n. 1b).

In full Lancaster gun, Lancaster rifle, the name of a cannon and rifle (respectively) having a slightly oval bore.

An Armstrong gun. Obsolete.

a gun whose barrel consists of a segmented core with wire wound tightly round it as reinforcement.

A kind of heavy cast-iron cannon or howitzer formerly used in the U.S. army.

In full Parrott gun. A cast iron, muzzle-loading, rifled cannon with the breech reinforced with wrought iron rings.

a field-gun in which a wedge is used in closing the breech.

a gun mounted on trucks (see sense 1).

(a) a piece of artillery on a motor chassis, similar to the later armoured car or self-propelled gun; (b) an aircraft cannon (firing shells)…

Army slang (chiefly British). During the First World War (1914–18) a name given to certain German… A large-calibre German howitzer gun.

A large-calibre German howitzer gun; = Black Maria, n. 3b. Now rare.

A large or powerful gun; spec. a large cannon used for long-range bombardment of an enemy.

An anti-aircraft gun; also (the usual sense in English), anti-aircraft fire. Also attributive. So flak-happy adj. mentally affected by flak (cf. bomb…