fieldpiece
Britishnoun
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What a Lovely War too often becomes bogged down in its own dogged sincerity and finally becomes mired, like some promising but unwieldy fieldpiece, in the Marne's mud.
From Time Magazine Archive
Meanwhile, the fellow who was driving the mules attached to the fieldpiece, turned his head, and saw what was going on.
From Tom Cringle's Log by Michael Scott
It was Pioche who shouldered the brass fieldpiece, and passed before the general on parade.
From Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume I by Charles James Lever
Mick Kennedy trained his one eye like a fieldpiece upon the locality suggested.
From Ben Blair The Story of a Plainsman by Will Lillibridge
It was a real gun, looked like a six-inch fieldpiece, but fired projectiles of mud by steam instead of powder.
From Steel The Diary of a Furnace Worker by Charles Rumford Walker
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