Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A short piece of ordnance having a large caliber and a chamber for the powder, like a mortar.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A kind of short cannon, formerly in use, designed to throw a large projectile with small velocity, used for the purpose of breaking or smashing in, rather than piercing, the object aimed at, as the side of a ship. It has no trunnions, but is supported on its carriage by a bolt passing through a loop on its under side.
Examples
“A shell from a short cannon known as a carronade landed close behind Joyful.”
“The carronade was a pot of a gun, not a long, elegant and accurate cannon, but a squat cauldron to be charged with powder and metal scraps that flayed out like buckshot.”
Sharpe's Devil
“A carronade is a short cannon of large calibre, but of very short range.”
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“He slews all out of gear, like a carronade with rotten lashings.”
“Montmorin knew what was coming, but just then the forward carronade sent a shattering cask of musket balls into the Revenant's belly and belched a pall of smoke above the ship.”
Sharpe's Trafalgar
“A ball clanged off Clouter's empty carronade and struck a man in the thigh.”
Sharpe's Trafalgar
“The Frenchmen had been snatching boarding pikes from their racks about the mainmast, while others held axes or cutlasses, but one carronade forward and one aft provided a tangling crossfire that destroyed the boarding party.”
Sharpe's Trafalgar
“Her forecastle was crowded with men armed with cutlasses and boarding pikes, but the remaining starboard carronade on Chase's quarterdeck ripped them away.”
Sharpe's Trafalgar
“A fountain spewed up on the starboard side, spattering one of the carronade crews.”
Sharpe's Trafalgar
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chained_bear "... a short kind of ordnance which carries a ball from 12 to 68 pound. It is shorter and lighter than guns of a corresponding callibre (sic) and has a chamber for the powder, like a mortar. They were first made at Carron in Scotland, from which they take their name." (citation in Historical Military Terms list description) Oct 9, 2008