单词 | cow-gun |
释义 | > as lemmascow-gun cow-gun n. colloquial a heavy naval gun. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > naval weapons and equipment > [noun] > ship's guns collectively > types of naval gun portpiece1527 fowler1548 port-base1600 perrier1643 carronade1779 Long Tom1812 Dahlgren1861 cow-gun1902 whispering Willie1918 1902 J. H. M. Abbott Tommy Cornstalk 136 His two great ‘cow-guns’—six-inch naval giants drawn by thirty-two bullocks apiece, and having another thirty-two to each timber. 1909 Daily Chron. 24 Sept. 4/4 Its motor machine-guns, its heavy ‘cow-guns’, and howitzers. 1911 R. Kipling Diversity of Creatures (1917) 317 The slow but well-directed fire of my cow-guns. < as lemmas |
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