twelve-inch

Historical Examples of twelve-inch

• It was a tiny truck, no more than four feet high and with twelve-inch wheels.

  Space Platform

  Murray Leinster

• The thing screamed in the air, like a shell from a twelve-inch gun.

  Wandering Ghosts

  F. Marion Crawford

• They were not fingerlings, but ten-inch and twelve-inch fellows.

  Days in the Open

  Lathan A. Crandall

• At Bapaume his battalion was hit by fragments of twelve-inch shells.

  Now It Can Be Told

  Philip Gibbs

• The Puritan had the range and sent a twelve-inch shell in reply.

  Young Peoples' History of the War with Spain

  Prescott Holmes