carronade

British  

/ ˌkærəˈneɪd /

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of carronade

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

Example Sentences

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carronade

She carried a heavy pivot gun and a carronade, and had a crew of fifty officers and men.

From Jan Vedder's Wife by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

The same remark applies to French and American ships when the use of the carronade extended from the British to other navies.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" by Various

I kept her as a tender, put an eighteen-pound carronade, a master’s mate, and twenty men on board her, and a few days afterwards she captured a very pretty schooner coming round Cape Mayzi.

From A Sailor of King George by A. Beckford Bevan

Slowly it surged onward meeting the stream, urged on by the strokes of six rowers, the Portuguese flag streaming out from the stern, and a small carronade mounted in her bows.

From The Ruined Cities of Zululand by Hugh Mulleneux Walmsley

Carronade.—What is the derivation of the term carronade, applied to pieces of ordnance shorter and thicker in the chamber than usual?

From Notes and Queries, Number 229, March 18, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Various