What is "demiculverin"

Usage examples of "demiculverin".

There will be two long culverins of twenty pounds for your chasers, twelve demiculverins for your waist-guns, and a brace of twelve-pounder demicannons for your quarterdeck.

While the world still was reeling and his hammock was swaying as if slung on board a storm-lashed ship at sea, one of the larger cannoneither the ten-pounder demiculverin or one of the three eight-pounder sakersroared close by, while the guard-bugler began to wind his horn in an off-key rendition of first the Assembly and then the Call to Arms.

With a roar, spouting an ells-long bolt of fire from its brazen mouth and a ten-pound iron ball that left the island to go crashing into the heavily wooded west bank of the river, the big demiculverin let go its charge, set off by the fire or the heat of its blazing carriage.

Above, twelve brass demiculverins, ten sakers, one minion, four portpieces, five fowlers, eight basies on the forecastle, six falcons, and nine falconets.

Culverins and demiculverins are long-range guns, painstakingly cast of fine bell bronze and hellishly expensive, designed to use a smaller caliber, lighter-weight ball, to provide finer accuracy at a distance than could any cannon.

The heaviest guns I kept in the field are classed as demiculverins, are about ten feet long, and weigh over two and one half tons, exclusive of carriage.

Betwixt the midnight and the dawn, Eamonn sallied forth at the head of his picked garrison, and whilst the Flemings were fighting and dying to protect their camp and trains and guns from the one, clear menace, a strong force of knights and mounted gallowglasses, supported by a host of archers and armed peasants, took them in the rear and on the flanks, looted and burned their camp, and made away with vast quantities of equipment, food, gunpowder, wheeled transport, and draft animals, and an assortment of weapons, including a dozen demiculverins and sakers.

I kept in the field are classed as demiculverins, are about ten feet long, and weigh over two and one half tons, exclusive of carriage.

Wisely, in these uncertain times, her master sailed with eight truck-gunsbrass demiculverins capable of throwing eight- or nine-pound iron ballsplus the usual assortment of swivelsrabinets, falconets, drakes, and perriers.

On the main deck were a dozen demiculverins, bronze guns whose slim barrels were eleven feet long and which fired a nine-pound shot.

Wisely, in these uncertain times, her master sailed with eight truck-gunsbrass demiculverins capable of throwing eight or nine-pound iron ballsplus the usual assortment of swivelsrabinets, falconets, drakes, and perriers.

These culverins and demiculverins threw their balls at the gundecks of the Frenchman, while the waist guns, the stern and forecastle guns, the rail swivels, and the top swivels, as well as the ship's complement of arquebusiers, sped their loads against rigging and exposed personnel.

The butcher's bill would be unthinkably high for any attempt at placing petards, and in order for his six minions to accomplish anything at all, they would have to go into battery virtually under the looming mouths of some dozen demiculverins cunningly emplaced on the side of the hill that arose hard by the left side of the road.

Not once had he mentioned a demiculverin, though that was, according to Tilton, what he hoped to find.