Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
field-gun .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A cannon mounted on wheels, for the use of a marching army; a piece of field artillery; -- called also
field gun .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A mobile
artillery piece, i.e.gun orhowitzer , for use in the field.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Glad "Charlie" didnt have that (like in a fieldpiece) dug in on some God for saken hill.
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Glad "Charlie" didnt have that (like in a fieldpiece) dug in on some God for saken hill.
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English officer, apparently of high rank, standing, alone and unsupported, by a fieldpiece, which, after the flight of the men by whom it was wrought, he had himself levelled and discharged against the clan of
Waverley 2004
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After the last hot fieldpiece was hauled out and the casualties of the campaign reckoned, the roll showed that Pegram had lost 7 killed and 53 wounded, a total of 60, in a battery of 80 men.
LEE’S LIEUTENANTS DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN 2001
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Captain Will Farley, Stuart's legendary chief scout, had a leg severed by the shot of a Federal fieldpiece.
LEE’S LIEUTENANTS DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN 2001
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After the last hot fieldpiece was hauled out and the casualties of the campaign reckoned, the roll showed that Pegram had lost 7 killed and 53 wounded, a total of 60, in a battery of 80 men.
LEE’S LIEUTENANTS DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN 2001
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Captain Will Farley, Stuart's legendary chief scout, had a leg severed by the shot of a Federal fieldpiece.
LEE’S LIEUTENANTS DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN 2001
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After the massive ordnance and extreme mechanization of North Africa it was strange never to see a mortar or a fieldpiece; just Owen guns and rifles, with bayonets in place all the time.
The Thorn Birds McCullough, Colleen 1977
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The enemy had not turned their fieldpiece on this bank of the river.
The Day of Their Return Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1973
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The enemy had not turned their fieldpiece on this bank of the river.
The Day Of Their Return Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1973
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