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Krupp
(krʌp, ‖ krup)
[Name of Alfred Krupp (1812–87), German metallurgist, founder of steel and armament works at Essen in Germany.]
A gun made at a Krupp factory.
1883Whitaker's Almanack 445/1 She is a casemate ship..armed with four 10-in. steel Krupps and one 12-in. Krupp. 1887Times (Weekly ed.) 26 Aug. 8/1 The Krupps..are mounted on Vavasseur carriages. 1900Daily News 23 July 5/4 The Bogue Forts are being re-armed by the Chinese with quick-firing Krupps. 1916‘Boyd Cable’ Action Front 264 One solitary Krupp dropping in here, and we'd have a pretty-looking mess. 1926T. E. Lawrence Seven Pillars (1935) i. xiii. 95 The Arabs rejoiced when they came, and believed they were now equals of the Turk; but the four guns were twenty-year-old Krupps, with a range of only three thousand yards.
Hence Krupped |krʌpt|, ˈKruppized ppl. adjs., made or carried out in a manner originated by Krupps.
1899Army & Navy Register (U.S.) 3 June 361/3 The great severity of the ballistic tests..necessitates the employment of a Kruppized process. 1902Encycl. Brit. XXXI. 355/2 An A.P. shot should perforate two calibres of wrought iron, one calibre of Harveyed steel, or 6/7 calibre of Krupped armour. |