demi-cannon
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of demi-cannon
From Middle French, dating back to 1550–60; see origin at demi-, cannon
Example Sentences
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On the edge of the downs, on the narrow slip of hard sand above high- water mark, and on Vere's right, Maurice had placed a battery of six demi-cannon.
From History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce, 1600 by John Lothrop Motley
In St. Domingo about four score, whereof was very much great ordnance, as whole cannon, demi-cannon, culverins, and such like.
From Drake's Great Armada by Walter Bigges
In those days a great variety of ordnance were employed, to which our ancestors gave the odd-sounding names of cannon, demi-cannon, culverins, demi-culverins, sakers, mynions, falcons, falconets, portpiece-halls, port-piece-chambers, fowler-halls, and curthalls.
From How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900 by William Henry Giles Kingston
Abel Keeling was one of the new men, the men who swore by the line-ahead, the broadside fire of sakers and demi-cannon, and weeks and months without a landfall.
From Widdershins by Oliver [pseud.] Onions
‘As if it had been an echo, we heard John Collins’s voice come up all hollow: “Twenty-four serpentines and two demi-cannon.
From Puck of Pook’s Hill by Arthur Rackham
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