Meaning of long Tom | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Any of various early cannon and field guns.
   historical
2. A high-powered lens for long-distance filming or photography.
3. A device formerly used in California for washing gold from the earth or mineral spoil with which it is excavated. It is a sloping wooden trough which widens at the lower end.

Examples

“What he would do afterwards — whether he would try⟳ to crawl right across the island from North Inlet to the camp among the swamps or whether he would fire Long Tom, trusting that his own⟳ comrades might come⟳ first to help⟳ him — was, of course, more than I could say⟳.”

“Digging around second-hand shops you may come⟳ across an old newspaper or picture agency 'Long Tom' lens.”

“One of the last⟳ 'Long Toms' produced for Fleet Street, it was used by a Daily Mirror photographer on Coronation Day, 2 June 1953.”

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