coehorncohornn.
/ˈkəʊhɔːn/ Military.
a. A small mortar for throwing grenades, introduced by Baron Coehorn. In full, coehorn mortar.
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1705 London Gaz. No. 4104/2 The 30 Coehorn Mortars.. did much damage.
1712 E. Cooke Voy. S. Sea 144 Hurt with one of our Grenado-Shels, which broke in the Bark, when fir'd out of the Cohorne.
1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random I. xxxii. 284 Our bomb battery, mounting two mortars, and twenty-four cohorns.
1806 A. Duncan Life Nelson 48 The Mahonesa, of 34 guns, besides cohorns and swivels.
1853 J. H. Stocqueler Mil. Encycl. 63/1 Four inches two-fifths is the calibre of the British coehorn.
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1746 in Naval Chron. (1799) 1 5 He..threw some cohorn shells.
1765 R. Jones New Treat. Artific. Fireworks iv. 107 For a coehorn balloon, let the diameter of the fuze hole be seven-eighths of an inch.
1790 R. Beatson Naval & Mil. Mem. I. 383 The ship had been three times set on fire by the cohorn shells.
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