What is "fifteens"

Usage examples of "fifteens".

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.

He was here to learn of this, this mighty fabric of motion and sound, this tapestry with Chernon moving as a thread within it, bright as gold, the threads of all the garrison around him, the centurions, the fifteens, the twenty-fours, the thirty-ones, all of them up to the seventies, one old man by himself and all the rest living in bright ribbons which would never fade.

They were Fourteens, Fifteens, the boy emptying the disposal basket was probably a Twenty.

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

Popular with the under fifteens because you didn’t need neural nanonics to switch the directed frictionless soles on or off.

But what stand I upon these things, who have rather to complain of the injury offered by some of our neighbours of the laity, which daily endeavour to bring us also within the compass of their fifteens or taxes for their own ease, whereas the tax of the whole realm, which is commonly greater in the champagne than woodland soil, amounteth only to 37,930 pounds ninepence half-penny, is a burden easy enough to be borne upon so many shoulders, without the help of the clergy, whose tenths and subsidies make up commonly a double, if not treble sum unto their aforesaid payments?