gun-carriage

Artillery-men were pushing the piece; it was in firing trim; the fore-carriage had been detached; two upheld the gun-carriage, four were at the wheels; others followed with the caisson.

Les Miserables 2008

It seemed like the gun-carriage of an enormous cannon.

Les Miserables 2008

This defect of the tension of the curve of the projectile in the rifled cannon of the sixteenth century arose from the smallness of the charge; small charges for that sort of engine are imposed by the ballistic necessities, such, for instance, as the preservation of the gun-carriage.

Les Miserables 2008

I no longer doubted at all the enormous possibilities of the substance, but I began to have doubts about the gun-carriage and the patent boots.

First Men in the Moon Herbert George 2006

Theodore threw his shama over his head, crying bitterly, and sat down against a gun-carriage.

Flashman on the March Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 2005

Mosambique for three hundred years, but in this, as in all other cases, have no power further than they can see from a gun-carriage.

A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004

The crescent moon looked bigger and bigger, and the cloud that stretched below it, shaped like a cannon in a gun-carriage, showed a faint yellow on its lower edge.

The Witch, and other stories 2004

Beside them on a wooden gun-carriage stands an unwieldy cannon captured by the Cossacks at some time or other, and which has not been fired for a hundred years.

The Cossacks 2003

His chair, supported by a carved gun-carriage, was modeled upon the ponderous proportions of

From the Earth to the Moon 2003

Among them were to be counted officers of all ranks, from lieutenants to generals; military men of every age, from those who were just making their debut in the profession of arms up to those who had grown old in the gun-carriage.

From the Earth to the Moon 2003