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gun carriages

n. (gun carriage English)

Usage examples of "gun carriages".

There was no way to reckon how many tons of supplies and powder had been surreptitiously cast by the way by wagoners trying to lighten their loads, or how many draft horses and mules had been killed or crippled in heaving to drag mired wagons and gun carriages out of the slimy, sucking mud.

Though the orders were to abandon the wounded, many of them dragged themselves after troops and begged for seats on the gun carriages.

The gate of the fort was a smoking wreckage, tangled with the charred remains of gun carriages.

His horse picked a slow path through the broken gun carriages and past the rows of red-coated dead.

Raj nodded toward three weapons on field-gun carriages, standing beside the rutted laneway.

A troop of Royal Horse Artillery raced spectacularly about the great rectangle, the wheels of their guns throwing up turf as the gun carriages slewed behind the galloping teams.

They were on field-gun carriages with shields, like the Islander Gatlings but not quite the same.

The fire of the hidden battery passed the length of the avenue, carrying off the living, destroying for a second time the dead, killing horses, breaking the wheels of vehicles and making the gun carriages fly through the air with the flames of a volcano in whose red and bluish depths black bodies were leaping.

Twisted gun carriages lay upside down in the broken and trampled undergrowth.

Sentries would now be alert, rust would be hammered from the shot, and gun carriages repaired.

Along with the gun carriages and the ready use shot which would have to be brought aft too there would be a total transfer of four tons.