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  • noun Plural form of cohorn.

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Examples

  • This was answered by our land-battery mounted with twenty-ono cannon, two mortars, and twenty-four cohorns, and five great ships of seventy or eighty guns, that fired without intermission.

    The Adventures of Roderick Random 2004

  • That we might do the Spaniards as much honour as possible, it was determined, in a council of war, that five of our largest ships should attack the fort on one side, while the battery, strengthened by two mortars and twenty-four cohorns, should ply it on the other.

    The Adventures of Roderick Random 2004

  • I have seen a cannonade of above four hundred pieces of artillery, besides bombs and cohorns, maintained for many hours, without doing much mischief.

    Travels through France and Italy 2004

  • Knox had arrived at Framingham with fifty-two cannon, nine large mortars and five cohorns, which he had hauled over the snow from Fort Ticonderoga.

    Washington Richard Harwell 1968

  • Knox had arrived at Framingham with fifty-two cannon, nine large mortars and five cohorns, which he had hauled over the snow from Fort Ticonderoga.

    Washington Richard Harwell 1968

  • Knox had arrived at Framingham with fifty-two cannon, nine large mortars and five cohorns, which he had hauled over the snow from Fort Ticonderoga.

    Washington Richard Harwell 1968

  • Knox had arrived at Framingham with fifty-two cannon, nine large mortars and five cohorns, which he had hauled over the snow from Fort Ticonderoga.

    Washington Richard Harwell 1968

  • The Indians having now abundance of ammunition for the siege, a council was called at Chote, to which the captain was brought, and put in mind of the obligations he lay under to them for sparing his life; and as they had resolved to carry six cannon and two cohorns with them against Fort

    An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 2 Alexander Hewatt

  • The longboat gun, which worked on a slide abaft all, was cleared, and the two little cohorns, or hand-swivel guns, which pointed over the sides, were trained and loaded.

    Jim Davis John Masefield 1922

  • Fifteen cannon, mortars, cohorns, howitzers, &c., were found in the fort, an abundance of military stores and a quantity of baggage.

    Camps and Firesides of the Revolution 1902

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