field gun

noun

a gun specially designed for service in direct support of front-line troops

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The enemy had gotten a field-gun down to the shore and with it they began to throw three-inch shells at the Chicken.
Wounds in the rain|Stephen Crane
"Let us have a look at the field-gun," said Sypher encouragingly.
Septimus|William J. Locke
Neither of them had ever seen a field-gun or a rifle, and consequently they were absolutely ignorant of the effect of such things.
The Treasure of the Tigris|A. F. Mockler Ferryman
I had left him and was fifty yards or so away when a field-gun shell burst close to the stretcher.
A Company of Tanks|W. H. L. Watson

We let loose with mitrailleuse, rifle, field-gun, everything that would throw death.
The Valley of Vision|Henry Van Dyke

field gun

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