demi-culverin

Small Culverin: Also known as the demi-culverin, this weapon fires a 10 lb shot and is suitable for mounting on many ships, including on the top deck.

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He had no sooner set the cup out of his hand, but a demi-culverin shot struck away the cup and a cooper's plane that stood by the mainmast and ran out on the other side of the ship, which nothing dismayed our generall, for he ceased not to encourage us, saying, "Fear nothing: for God who hath preserved me from this shot will also deliver us from these traitors and villains."'

Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts Rosalind Northcote

But Smith loaded a demi-culverin with stones and fired upon a great tree, icicle-hung.

Pioneers of the Old South: a chronicle of English colonial beginnings Mary Johnston 1903

"I tell you, on the credit of a poor gentleman," he said, "that there were five hundred discharges of demi-cannon, culverin, and demi-culverin, from the Vanguard; and when I was farthest off in firing my pieces, I was not out of shot of their harquebus, and most time within speech, one of another."

History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1584-1609) John Lothrop Motley 1845

"I tell you, on the credit of a poor gentleman," he said, "that there were five hundred discharges of demi-cannon, culverin, and demi-culverin, from the Vanguard; and when I was farthest off in firing my pieces, I was not out of shot of their harquebus, and most time within speech, one of another."

History of the United Netherlands, 1586-89 — Complete John Lothrop Motley 1845

"I tell you, on the credit of a poor gentleman," he said, "that there were five hundred discharges of demi-cannon, culverin, and demi-culverin, from the Vanguard; and when I was farthest off in firing my pieces, I was not out of shot of their harquebus, and most time within speech, one of another."

PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete John Lothrop Motley 1845

"I tell you, on the credit of a poor gentleman," he said, "that there were five hundred discharges of demi-cannon, culverin, and demi-culverin, from the Vanguard; and when I was farthest off in firing my pieces, I was not out of shot of their harquebus, and most time within speech, one of another."

History of the United Netherlands, 1588d John Lothrop Motley 1845

A demi-culverin shot may reach the castle from the anchorage, and the castle is of no strength.

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 Robert Kerr 1784

-- because, as luck would have it a straw tickled my nose and I sneezed loud as a demi-culverin, and there's poor

Black Bartlemy's Treasure Jeffery Farnol 1915

And he lifted up his demi-culverin, or curtal-axe — a weapon weighing about thirteen hundredweight — and was about to fling it at the intruder’s head, when the latter, kneeling gracefully on one knee, said calmly, “It is I, my good liege, Wilfrid of

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