field gun

noun

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

Example Sentences

It required no revolution of his nature to learn to calculate the range and fire a field gun or to march the goose-step.

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Amusette, am-ū-zėt′, n. a light field-gun invented by Marshal Saxe.

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They immediately dispersed, and subsequently opened a well-directed fire with a field gun.

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Out to their left, Sergeant Jones was still trying unsuccessfully to open the vent of the field-gun.

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In the 4.7-inch field gun, model of 1906, America took to France a weapon all her own.

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