| 单词 | minion gun |
| 释义 | > as lemmasminion gun 4. A kind of small culverin or cannon. More fully minion gun, minion piece. Now historical. 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 1513 in H. L. Blackmore Armouries of Tower of London (1976) I. 234 Every Minion pece shotith of Iron viij lb. and of powder at every shot viij lb. 1547 Inventory Henry VIII in Archaeologia (1982) 107 169/1 Gonnes of Brasse..Cannons..Culverynes..Sacres..Mynnyons. 1587 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Iland Brit. (new ed.) ii. xvi. 198/2 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) I Minion poiseth eleauen hundred pounds, and hath three inches and a quarter within the mouth. 1607 J. Hunt Draught St. Georges Fort, Virginia (map) .A. a demy Culueringe .B. Sakers .C. Minnyons .D. fawcons. 1647 N. Nye Art of Gunnery i. 77 Minions of the largest size, are three inches and a quarter Diameter in the mouth... The ordinary Minion, the mouth 3 inches high. 1727 A. Hamilton New Acct. E. Indies I. xxx. 374 [I] had eight minion Guns to scour the Sands. 1735–6 T. Carte Hist. Life Duke Ormonde I. 341 There were three demi-canon, two sakers, and one minion. 1860 Earl Dundonald Autobiogr. Seaman i. 93 Her armament consisted of fourteen 4-pounders, a species of gun little larger than a blunderbuss, and formerly known in the service under the name of ‘miñion’. 1894 C. N. Robinson Brit. Fleet 217 Sakers (5-pounders) and minions (4-pounders) were mounted on skids. 1982 Archaeologia 107 167/2 Twenty-six of the gun types are well known, their names being..serpentine, saker, minion, falcon, [etc.]. < as lemmas |
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