culverin

1 Have the boys prime and run out these culverin.

2 Here Baran," he said,—thrusting his foot against the culverin I mentioned before—"you claim to be a skilled bombardier.

3 At midnight hour, when culverin And gun and bomb were sleeping,2778 Before the camp with mournful mien, The loveliest embassy were seen, All kneeling low and weeping.

4 In the later Middle Ages guns of various calibres were known by the names of birds of prey or reptiles; among such were falcons and falconets, culverins and demi-culverins.

5 To your assaults with the culverin we owe our victory.

6 It had turrets at each corner and a wide breastwork, from which a row of eighteen-pound culverin projected, hard fingers against the sky.

7 Now, while the militiamen worked with hammers and drills to finish removing the spikes from the large culverin, the battle had become mostly noise and smoke.

8 The vessel had swung round a little, so that her stern-chaser, a culverin twelve feet long, pointed full at the fort.

9 The battle was fought at close quarters in the old Mediterranean style, with saber, cutlass, and culverin; ramming, grappling, and boarding.

10 Here, for the first time, I saw an old-time culverin, rusty with age and for want of care.

11 The bursting of the gigantic culverin had really a crushing effect upon Miller, for all his hopes had rested hitherto on that gun.

12 "Aye, just give me a minute to set the rest of these culverin."

13 Now, my masters, load again, this time with double charges, consisting of a half-keg of bullets to each culverin, with a chain shot on top, and the smaller ordnance in proportion.

14 After fifteen minutes' work he was able to seize the opening of the culverin.

15 Researchers recently found medieval cannonballs from culverins, an early form of cannon, that were most likely used by Vlad the Impaler, during his bloody battle in 1461 with the Ottoman Turks.

16 On a hill overlooking the harbor a row of torches blazed, illuminating a battery of eighteen- pound culverin set above a high stone breastwork.

17 In sooth, one could hardly tell whether they ought to be called pistols, or culverins.

18 In the 16th and 17th centuries the “cannon” in England was distinctively a large piece, smaller natures of ordnance being called by various special names such as culverin, saker, falcon, demi-cannon, &c.

19 Accordingly, early next day he fired off a culverin, and prepared to land with 100 men, “having light ordnance in his great boat, and in the other boats double bases in their noses.”

20 Above them a steep wall of cut stone rose up against the dark sky, and across the top, illuminated by torches, was the row of culverin.

1 火枪

musket musketry petronel

2 手枪

rod shooter pistol handgun gat shooting iron

3 重炮

ordnance gunnery gun.

4 毛瑟枪

musketry Mauser

5 步枪

rifle