falconet
Americannoun
noun
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any of various small falcons, esp any of the Asiatic genus Microhierax
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a small light cannon used from the 15th to 17th centuries
Etymology
Origin of falconet
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A plague on falcon and falconet, on cannon and demicannon, and all the barking bull-dogs whom they halloo against stone and lime in these our days!
From The Abbot by Sir Walter Scott
Apparently they were watching the departing pinnace with so much interest that they had not observed the muzzle of the falconet projecting from the wall.
From With Drake on the Spanish Main by Herbert Strang
A little falconet was also placed in the upper chamber.
From Calavar or The Knight of The Conquest, A Romance of Mexico by Robert Montgomery Bird
The falconet, minion, falcon, saker, and demi-culverin were known respectively as 2, 3, 4, 6, and 9-pounders; while the heavier pieces, or culverins, ranged from 15-pounders up to the "cannon-royall," or 63-pounders.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 03 by Richard Hakluyt
For its later application to a firearm cf. falconet.
From The Romance of Names by Ernest Weekley
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