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caissons

n. (plural of caisson English)

Usage examples of "caissons".

The gunners were dropping them back into the round holding slots in the caissons, using tongs.

Something big blew up over toward the enemy, one of their caissons probably.

A rending clap and ball of yellow flame marked a secondary explosion as one of the siege-gun caissons went up.

He could see men moving among the caissons, men on horseback moving in the trees.

To the right there was an artillery park, dozens of guns and caissons and horses.

The guns were in line, the caissons were stacking shot, the gunners digging their small trenches.

Other compounds at Log Alpha had shells, rockets, mortars, caissons of machine-gun rounds, armor-piercing antitank warheads, and grenades.

Their teams and caissons were well back, men were trotting back and forth humping loads of ammunition.