What is "demiculverins"

Usage examples of "demiculverins".

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.

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.