Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name given to one of the larger kinds of heavy gun, as used in the latter part of the sixteenth century.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Mil. Antiq.) A kind of ordnance, carrying a ball weighing from thirty to thirty-six pounds.
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- noun A
medium -sizedcannon , slightly larger than aculverin and smaller than a standard cannon.
Etymologies
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Examples
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She carries sixteen pieces of ordinance, two brass rakers, six iron demiculverin drakes, four iron whole culverin drakes, and four iron demicannon drakes.
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For this reason, Spanish demicannon were as long as 24 calibers and the quarter-cannon ran up to 28.
Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America Albert Manucy
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In St. Domingo about four score, whereof was very much great ordnance, as whole cannon, 10 demicannon, culverins, and such like.
Drake’s Great Armada 1909
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Next in size was the demicannon weighing 4,000 pounds (1,800 kg), which fired a 30-pound (14-kg) ball to 1,700 yards; smaller guns included the cannon-petroe or periers, sakers, minions, and falconets.
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Next in size was the demicannon weighing 4,000 pounds (1,800 kg), which fired a 30-pound (14-kg) ball to 1,700 yards; smaller guns included the cannon-petroe or periers, sakers, minions, and falconets.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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The Bridgeward heard, and muttered, “A plague on falcon and falconet, on cannon and demicannon, and all the barking bull-dogs whom they halloo against stone and lime in these our days!
The Abbot 2008
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Her lower tyre [tier] hath thirty ports which are to be furnished with demicannon and whole cannon; her middle tyre hath also thirty ports for demiculverin and whole culverin; her third tyre hath twentie six ports for other ordnance; her forecastle hath twelve ports, and her half deck hath fourteen ports; she hath thirteen or fourteene ports more within board for murdering pieces, besides a great many loope-holes out of the cabins for musket shot.
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Her lower tyre [tier] hath thirty ports which are to be furnished with demicannon and whole cannon; her middle tyre hath also thirty ports for demiculverin and whole culverin; her third tyre hath twentie six ports for other ordnance; her forecastle hath twelve ports, and her half deck hath fourteen ports; she hath thirteen or fourteene ports more within board for murdering pieces, besides a great many loope-holes out of the cabins for musket shot.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
Telofy commented on the word demicannon
See sarcin.
October 1, 2008