A cannon with a separate chamber; (also) a short gun with a large bore, a mortar.
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| 释义 | society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > piece of artillery > [noun] > mortar (17) potgun?1470 A cannon with a separate chamber; (also) a short gun with a large bore, a mortar. mortar1547 A short piece of artillery with a large bore and (from the 17th to the late 19th cent.) trunnions on the breech, used to discharge missiles, in… mortar-piece1570 = sense 4a. pot-piecea1578 A gun with a large bore, a mortar; = potgun, n. 1. bomb1684 A mortar, a shell-gun. Obsolete. rare. coehorn1705 A small mortar for throwing grenades, introduced by Baron Coehorn. In full, coehorn mortar. royal1743 Military. A type of small mortar. Cf. royal mortar n. at compounds 1. Now historical. royal mortar1867 a type of small mortar; cf. sense B. 5. mortar gun1997 Subcategories:— trench mortar (8) |
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