单词 | rabinet |
释义 | rabinetn. Now historical. A type of small cannon (cf. robinet n. 2).J. Smith Sea Gram. (1627) gives the diameter of bore as 1 inch, and the charge as half a pound, but other evidence shows variation. 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 1596 J. Harington Apol. sig. Aa4 They made a sore batterie, with Rabbinets, Minions, Sakers, and Demicannons. 1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres v. 124 Peeces that shoot bullet of waight from seuenteene pound downeward..euen to the Rabinet. 1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. ii. 11 Rabinits to cleare the Decks fore and aft. 1647 N. Nye Art of Gunnery i. 78 The Rabanet hath in diameter at the bore one inch and an halfe,..the weight [of the shot] 8 ounces of Iron, and of Lead 12, the weight of the peece 300, the length 5 foot and an halfe, the charge in powder three quarters. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xviii. 137/2 The Rabbenett or Rabnett or smeriglio is 300 weight. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Rabinet, a small piece of Ordnance, between a Falconet and a Base. 1802 C. James New Mil. Dict. at Cannon Rabinet, which carried a ball of 16 ounces. 1894 C. N. Robinson Brit. Fleet 220 Falconets, and rabonets. 1976 Burlington Mag. Mar. p. xlviii/2 A pair of Dutch bronze Rabinets by Cornelis Ouderogge. 1998 P. Edwards in J. Kenyon & J. Ohlmeyer Civil Wars vii. 236 In accordance with the contemporary stress on transportability, the smaller more manœuvrable guns of saker size down to the three-quarter-pounder rabinets proved popular. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1596 |
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