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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The cascabel or knob at the rear end of a cannon: the common term in early artillery, as of the sixteenth century.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Mil.), rare The cascabel, or hindmost knob, of a cannon.
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chained_bear commented on the word pommelion
Wow. I thought cascabel was a specialized word--turns out it has a synonym.
This paragraph is an eighteenth-century cannon-lover's dream.
"The exactness of the coiled muzzle-lashing, made fast to the eye-bolt above the port-lid, the seizing of the mid-breeching to the pommelion, the neat arrangement of the sponge, handspike, powder-horn, priming-wire, bed, quoin, train-tackle, shot and all the rest told a knowing eye a great deal about the gun-crew..."
--Patrick O'Brian, The Hundred Days, 38
March 20, 2008
reesetee commented on the word pommelion
Amazing. As though we might need a synonym for this word. ;-) I guess it was more useful back in the days of frequent cannon use.
March 20, 2008
sionnach commented on the word pommelion
Why does this word remind me of grapefruit?
March 20, 2008
reesetee commented on the word pommelion
Odd. It reminds me of a pommel horse in camouflage.
March 21, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word pommelion
Does pomme mean grapefruit in French?
Oh dear. I think sionnach must be making a joke that I'm not getting. *wrings paws and worries she's turning into gangerh*
;)
March 21, 2008
mollusque commented on the word pommelion
I think sionnach is referring to pamplemousse.
March 21, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word pommelion
That can't be a real word. Really?! *excited* I think of pamplemousse as sharing essentially the same meaning or usage as gehunteschpundt.
March 21, 2008
sionnach commented on the word pommelion
I was indeed thinking of pamplemousse, though I don't understand why pommelion would create that association, as opposed to a simpler one with apples (pommes). I suppose it's the p-m-l combination that does it.
Thanks, mollusque!
I didn't know that bears could actually *wring* their paws. But maybe c_b was speaking figuratively.
March 21, 2008
bilby commented on the word pommelion
I was thinking of pomelo when sionnach made that comment. But you find the pom- root referring to lots of round things in Romance langauges:
pom-pom, pomodoro, pomegranate, pommel, etc.
from Latin pomum - fruit, apple.
March 21, 2008
mollusque commented on the word pommelion
Perhaps the lion and the moose helped trigger the association.
March 21, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word pommelion
Uh oh. Who's going to make a list of P-M-L words? *not I*
March 21, 2008
mollusque commented on the word pommelion
Pamphlet, papermill, pumpernickel...
March 21, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word pommelion
OK, fine. Here's a Public List for P-M-L words!
March 21, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word pommelion
See also cascabel.
October 10, 2008