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cascabel|ˈkɑːskəbɛl, ˈkæs-|
Forms: 7 caskable, casacabel(l, 9 cascable, 7– cascabel.
[a. Sp. cascabel little round bell, child's rattle, rattlesnake; which has been conjectured to be connected with L. scabellum a kind of castanet played with the foot: see Diez.]
1. Gunnery. Formerly the knob or pommel at the rear end of a cannon; now the whole rear part behind the base ring, including knob and base.
1639R. Ward Animadv. Warre 129 The Center of the pummell or Caskable of the Peece. 1672W. P. Compl. Gunner iv. 5 The Pumel or Button at her Coyl or Britchend is called the Casacabel. 1795Phil. Trans. LXXXV. 439 A circular cavity..to receive the cascabel of the gun. 1797Rumford ibid. LXXXVII. 240 A cannon of metal..placed vertically upon its cascabel. 1858Greener Gunnery 9 Furnished with trunnions, cascable, and touchhole. 1864Daily Tel. 25 May, The knob of the cascable.
†b. called also cascabel deck. Obs.
1669S. Sturmy Mariner's Mag. v. xi. 48 (On engraving of a Gun) Casacabell deck. 1706Phillips, Cascabel, the Pummel or hindermost round Knob at the Breach of a great Gun, by some called the Cascabel-deck.
‖2. A rattle-snake; also its rattle. [Sp.]
1760–72tr. Juan & Ulloa's Voy. S. Amer. I. vii. 60 The cascabel or rattle-snake..at the end of its tail is the cascabel or rattle. 1852Th. Ross tr. Humboldt's Trav. I. iv. 152 The Cascabel, or rattle-snake, the Coral, and other vipers. |