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- noun Plural form of
culverin .
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Examples
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Besides harquebuses for the soldiers, there were many kinds of cannon with strange names, such as culverins, falconets, sakers, serpentines, and rabinets.
Introductory American History Elbert Jay Benton
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... of whom four hundred should be arquebusers and two hundred pikemen; large artillery, such as culverins, with ammunition; and ammunition and weapons for those who are here now.
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Earlier matchlocks, which required a lit match held in a “matchlock” to fire, and the even earlier hand culverins, which required manual application of a lit match, are still in circulation but no regular forces use them.
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A heavily armed small carrack might sport 2 culverins below and 5 demi-culverins on deck per side, which at that rate could sink a ship of its class but only with some work.
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"If I can afford to dress like this, just think what I can do to your castle if I spend the money on culverins instead."
Horses in seventh-century England Carla 2008
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The parade is essentially military, and the culverins are on hand, hauled on their limbers by 50 horses.
Horses in seventh-century England Carla 2008
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The calculus of royal display is more psychological, not just a balance sheet of dresses v culverins.
Horses in seventh-century England Carla 2008
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Had we not the ways filled with poisoned caltrops, guarded by Indian archers, barred with butts full of earth, raked with culverins and arquebuses?
Westward Ho! 2007
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“Heaven help us, Admiral Hawkins, who has put fire to your culverins in this fashion?” said Lord Howard.
Westward Ho! 2007
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Amyas, having, as he had said, the wind, and being able to go nearer it than the Spaniard, kept his place at easy point-blank range for his two eighteen-pounder culverins, which Yeo and his mate worked with terrible effect.
Westward Ho! 2007
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