† cartown.

Etymology: apparently < 16th cent. Flemish kartouwe ‘genus bombardæ maioris, vulgo cartuna et quartana , German cartaun , Italian courtaun ’ (Kilian); meaning ‘quarter-cannon’ (carthoun n.). The Flemish word and the form curtall ‘a great gun’ mentioned by Hall, suggest French quartaut, in the 16th cent. quartault, the measure of a fourth of a bushel, which Littré refers to medieval Latin quartāle: but no evidence of the application of the French word to a gun has been found. Cartow was apparently sometimes associated in the 17th cent. with cart, as if the same as cart-piece, i.e. carriage-gun.

Scottish. Obsolete.

A kind of cannon, also called a quarter-cannon, which threw a ball of a quarter of a hundred-weight. See also carthoun n.

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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > piece of artillery > [noun] > small or short pieces

murderer1495

curtala1509

minion1513

passe-volant1513

pikmoyane1513

saker1521

base1539

robinet1547

quarter cannon?a1549

bersec1550

murdresarc1550

yetling1558

battardc1565

demi-cannon1577

calabass1578

double curtal1582

demi-culverin1587

rabinet1596

murdering piece1601

drake1627

putter1646

cartow1650

putterlingc1650

minion drakea1661

cut1672

under-saker1678

murther1688

carronade1779

carthoun1849

1650 J. Row & J. Row Hist. Kirk Scotl. (1842) 519 June 15..The Covenanters Lords..had..with them tuo great cartowes and some lesser field-peeces.

c1650 J. Spalding Memorialls Trubles Scotl. & Eng. (1850) I. 155 Tuo cartowis or quarter canons, haueing the bullet about 24 pund wecht.

c1650 J. Spalding Memorialls Trubles Scotl. & Eng. (1851) II. 364 Vpone Tuysday, 14^th of May, the tua cartowis wes brocht about fra Montroiss to Abirdene be sea; bot thair wheilles wes hakit and hewin by the Gordouns, as ye haue hard. Thair cam also tua vther iron cart peices to the schoir.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online June 2019).

单词	cartow
释义	† cartown. Etymology: apparently < 16th cent. Flemish kartouwe ‘genus bombardæ maioris, vulgo cartuna et quartana , German cartaun , Italian courtaun ’ (Kilian); meaning ‘quarter-cannon’ (carthoun n.). The Flemish word and the form curtall ‘a great gun’ mentioned by Hall, suggest French quartaut, in the 16th cent. quartault, the measure of a fourth of a bushel, which Littré refers to medieval Latin quartāle: but no evidence of the application of the French word to a gun has been found. Cartow was apparently sometimes associated in the 17th cent. with cart, as if the same as cart-piece, i.e. carriage-gun. Scottish. Obsolete. A kind of cannon, also called a quarter-cannon, which threw a ball of a quarter of a hundred-weight. See also carthoun n. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > piece of artillery > [noun] > small or short pieces murderer1495 curtala1509 minion1513 passe-volant1513 pikmoyane1513 saker1521 base1539 robinet1547 quarter cannon?a1549 bersec1550 murdresarc1550 yetling1558 battardc1565 demi-cannon1577 calabass1578 double curtal1582 demi-culverin1587 rabinet1596 murdering piece1601 drake1627 putter1646 cartow1650 putterlingc1650 minion drakea1661 cut1672 under-saker1678 murther1688 carronade1779 carthoun1849 1650 J. Row & J. Row Hist. Kirk Scotl. (1842) 519 June 15..The Covenanters Lords..had..with them tuo great cartowes and some lesser field-peeces. c1650 J. Spalding Memorialls Trubles Scotl. & Eng. (1850) I. 155 Tuo cartowis or quarter canons, haueing the bullet about 24 pund wecht. c1650 J. Spalding Memorialls Trubles Scotl. & Eng. (1851) II. 364 Vpone Tuysday, 14^th of May, the tua cartowis wes brocht about fra Montroiss to Abirdene be sea; bot thair wheilles wes hakit and hewin by the Gordouns, as ye haue hard. Thair cam also tua vther iron cart peices to the schoir. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1650
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