fieldpiece
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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
Marion at once threw up a mound and planted the fieldpiece upon it in a position to rake the northern face of the parapet of the fort against which Lee was about to move.
From Elsie in the South by Finley, Martha
But General Foch's troops were well supplied with that terrible engine of destruction—the French 3-inch fieldpiece, known, as the 75-mm., an extremely powerful gun for its caliber.
From The Story of the Great War, Volume III (of 12) The War Begins, Invasion of Belgium, Battle of the Marne by Miller, Francis Trevelyan
Bart made out a long fuse trailing three feet or more over the side of the old fieldpiece.
From Bart Stirling's Road to Success Or, The Young Express Agent by Chapman, Allen
He referred to an ancient fieldpiece located on the front lawn of the school.
From The Rover Boys Under Canvas or The Mystery of the Wrecked Submarine by Stratemeyer, Edward
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