carronade

/ ˌkærəˈneɪd /

noun

1. an obsolete naval gun of short barrel and large bore

Word History and Origins

Origin of carronade¹

C18: named after Carron, Scotland, where it was first cast; see -ade

Example Sentences

As they approached, the Reindeer by using a shifting twelve-pound carronade, was able to fire it five times before Blakely could get a gun to bear.

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The schooner was thoroughly appointed, carrying twelve twelve-pound carronades, two long sixes, a brass four, a thirty-two pound carronade and eighty-eight men.

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A cannon was close at hand—a nine-pound carronade.

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Before I knew him he had gone through a very long and expensive course of experiments upon artillery, of which the carronade was the result.

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From there the housekeeper took them, by way of the central staircase and gallery up a steep corkscrew stair in a turret to the top of what had been the main tower before the North Keep had been built, and out on to the battlements, where the Spanish guns still stand guard, among a multitude of other obsolete pieces, including a carronade or two from the ancient foundry at Falkirk, over the equally futile suits of mail in the halls below.

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