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howitzer
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ An howitzer shell screamed down to smash the wheel of the last gun limber. ▪ An even more agonizing ordeal for his troops was to position the howitzers and antiaircraft guns in the hills above Dienbienphu. ▪ But like a howitzer ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A howitzer is a type of artillery piece characterized by a relatively short barrel and the use of comparatively small propellant charges to propel projectiles in relatively high trajectories , with a steep angle of descent. In the taxonomies of artillery ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Howitzer \How"itz*er\, n. [G. haubitze, formerly hauffnitz, Bohem. haufnice, orig., a sling.] (Mil.) A gun so short that the projectile, which was hollow, could be put in its place by hand; a kind of mortar. A short, light, largebore cannon, usually having ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a muzzle-loading high-angle gun with a short barrel that fires shells at high elevations for a short range [syn: mortar , trench mortar ]
Usage examples of howitzer.
For the first time in years, Simone thought of Aloin Boyer, the handsome, virile husband she had lost to a German howitzer.
Each had a barbette with a raised edge in the center and the stubby muzzle of a heavy fortress howitzer protruding from it.
The hole in the cascabel for reeving a breeching has been purposely omitted in howitzers, as hitherto the use of a breeching has not been found necessary.
She was now armed with eight brass guns, of a calibre of six pounds each, four howitzers aft, and two cohorns on the taffrail.
A dead horse lay nearby, just one horse, and there was no limber, but only wooden chests of ammunition, and Starbuck remembered Swynyard telling him about the mountain howitzers of the old U.
The french howitzers on the other stream bank had begun lobbing shells into the graveyard and upper houses, adding to the smoke and noise.
It was a gale of heat that whirled burning branches aloft, and crashed from tree to tree, leaping a gap a hundred feet wide with a deep whooshing roar and bursting the next tree asunder as though it had been hit by a lyddite shell from a howitzer.
When at last he moved out on January 10th to attempt to outflank the Boers, he took with him nineteen thousand infantry, three thousand cavalry, and sixty guns, which included six howitzers capable of throwing a 50-pound lyddite shell, and ten long-range naval pieces.
Tactical employment is the same as that of field howitzers, but the Nebelwerfer is far inferior in accuracy.
The date groves and norias of the riverside were lost in a sea of tents, orderly clumps and rows, dog-lines running for kilometers, artillery parks with everything from the common pompoms to heavy muzzle loading howitzers.
With a howitzer, some matrosses and fifty infantry, Laurens moved down the river, and on the evening of the 26th reached the place of Mrs.
Arsenals heaped with muniments of war, With spurs and howitzers and drums and shot, But what does that permit us to infer?
But Joe soon discovered that with its short thick barrel, its heavy stock and enormous bullets, the musketoon could be used with extraordinary accuracy when fired in the manner of a howitzer, aimed in the air rather than at the target so the bullets traversed a high arc and struck from above.
Joe practiced with his musketoon in the mountains mastering the trajectories of a howitzer, careful to let himself be seen only from far away.
The four field guns were mere four pounders while the fifth was a five-inch howitzer, and not one of the pieces fired a ball of real weight.