Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See coehorn.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Mil.) See coehorn.

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  • noun Alternative form of coehorn.

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Examples

  • The men who were stationed in that top, although they had no brass cohorn there, such as those in the main and fore tops plied, had taken many English lives, while the thick smoke surged around them.

    Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004

  • Salle thawed the frozen ground in midwinter to plant his palisades, to the time that the gallant Prideaux lay mangled in its trenches by the bursting of a cohorn -- on the very eve of victory.

    Neville Trueman, the Pioneer Preacher : a tale of the war of 1812

  • -- Upon this commanding site, west of the Bowery, where Grand and Mulberry streets intersect, was erected a powerful irregular heptagonal redoubt, mounting eight nine-pounders, four three pounders, and six royal and cohorn mortars.

    The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn Henry P. Johnston

  • Niagara division of the army on the death of General Prideaux, an able and distinguished officer, unfortunately killed, four days previously, by the bursting of a cohorn.

    The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1 Charles Roger

  • General Prideaux had been killed early in the seige by the premature explosion of a small cohorn and this left the English command to Sir William Johnson.

    Four Nations 1934

  • The little cohorn added its miniature bellow to the bigger guns, which now began to thunder regularly, one after another, shaking the ground we trod.

    The Hidden Children 1899

  • Of our artillery we had only a light piece or two left, and the cohorn; of cattle we had scarcely any; of wagons and horses very few, having killed and eaten the more worn-out animals at Horseheads.

    The Hidden Children 1899

  • So Lana went into the bush-hut and refilled and locked the box, and then we all walked together to the military works which were being erected on a cleared knoll overlooking both rivers, and upon which artillerymen were now mounting the three-pounder and the cohorn, or "grasshopper," as our men had named it, because our artillery officers had taken it from its wooden carriage and had mounted it on a tripod.

    The Hidden Children 1899

  • Also there were many swamps to pass, and as the men carried the cohorn by hand, our progress was slow.

    The Hidden Children 1899

  • The men who were stationed in that top, although they had no brass cohorn there, such as those in the main and fore tops plied, had taken many English lives, while the thick smoke surged around them.

    Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War 1862

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