Škoda

[ skoh-duh; Czech shkaw-dah ]

noun

1. E·mil von [e, -mil-f, uh, n], 1839–1900, Czech engineer and manufacturer of artillery.

Example Sentences

“He was very clear on his support for the Civil Rights Act,” Mark Skoda, founder of the Memphis Tea Party, said.

From The Daily Beast

To take on new Skoda or Krupp guns with these short-range veterans is rough on the gunners.

From Project Gutenberg

The old-fashioned fortress, suddenly made "out-of-date" by the Skoda mortars, was usually armed with guns of the naval type.

From Project Gutenberg

The big Skoda mortars owed their mobility to the clever way in which they were constructed.

From Project Gutenberg

The Skoda gun, some of which type are used in Japan and China, is loaded by a hopper feed, and is gas-operated.

From Project Gutenberg

Wunderlich, Rokitansky and Skoda were, in the middle of the nineteenth century, the greatest medical men of their time.

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