culverin

Definitions

1. Any of a range of early gunpowder-fired guns of various sizes, from firearm to artillery.
   historical
2. A kind of handgun.
   historical
3. A large cannon.
   historical

Equivalents

Examples

“Let⟳ Sacars, Culuerings, and Cannons ſound / In honour of their bones, and rock the ground / With all your deafning terrors: for behold / The Balſum for your wounds, are rich mens gold, / Powder the world with wonder⟳, and thus crie, / The Camel now may paſſe the needles eie.”

“This had been discharged from a culverin on the opposite side of the valley.”

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