What is "eighteens"

Usage examples of "eighteens".

Temat did not have three eighteens of plans for overthrowing his clanfather.

Riders were sent to reassure him, and order him to come up in person and bring his eighteens with him.

A moment later, the roar of one of Alkides’s eighteens was almost an anticlimax.

But her two and thirty guns are only twelvepounders, as against Pyramus's eighteens: and her broadside weight of metal is a mere three hundred pounds as against four hundred and sixty-seven.

He's the greatest skipper in SubPac, and now that we've got those Mark Eighteens, this is going to be the Moray Maru's greatest patrol.

They have long twenty-fours as opposed to our eighteens - they fire balls that weigh four and twenty pounds, rather than eighteen.

You are forgetting that La Vengeance, who carried eighteens, knocked Constellation all to pieces.

He's on the road down to Lunnun with a dozen new light nine-pounders and four rifled eighteens we worked up this past winter—an' they'll throw further an' straighter an' harder 'n anything thesehere folks is ever seen, too.

Her port side is pierced for fifteen guns, her stem for four chasers, which last were already run out and looked to be long fifteens or eighteens, bronze or brass.