† salveen.
Obsolete.
A salvo n.2 (of firearms).
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > management of artillery > [noun] > an artillery shot > salvo or broadside
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1632 Swedish Intelligencer ii. 169 Teaching them especially how to give a Charge or Salvee; some upon their knees, others behind them stooping forward; and the hindmost ranke standing upright, and all to give fire at once.
c1651 R. Gordon Geneal. Hist. Earldom Sutherland Contin. (1813) 526 At the first incounter they gave the Lord Gordon a salvee of shot from the folds, where he was slayn, with dyvers others.
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