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coehorn, cohorn Mil.|ˈkəʊhɔːn|
[f. the name of Coehorn ((ˈkuhorn), i.e. cow-horn), the Dutch military engineer.]
A small mortar for throwing grenades, introduced by Baron Coehorn. In full, coehorn mortar.
1705Lond. Gaz. No. 4104/2 The 30 Coehorn Mortars.. did much damage. 1712E. Cooke Voy. S. Sea 144 Hurt with one of our Grenado-Shels, which broke in the Bark, when fir'd out of the Cohorne. 1748Smollett Rod. Rand. xxxii, The battery..strengthened by two mortars and twenty-four cohorns. 1806A. Duncan Nelson 48 The Mahonesa, of 34 guns, besides cohorns and swivels. 1853Stocqueler Mil. Encycl. s.v., Four inches two-fifths is the calibre of the British coehorn.
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1746in Naval Chron. (1799) I. 5 He..threw some cohorn shells. 1765R. Jones Fireworks iv. 107 For a coehorn balloon, let the diameter of the fuze hole be seven-eighths of an inch. 1790Beatson Nav. & Mil. Mem. I. 383 The ship had been three times set on fire by the cohorn shells. |