Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A kind of cannon in use in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It is described as having a bore of 4½ inches and throwing a shot weighing 9½ pounds.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Mil. Antiq.) A kind of ordnance, carrying a ball weighing from nine to thirteen pounds.
Etymologies
- demi- + culverin (Wiktionary)
Examples
“She carries sixteen pieces of ordinance, two brass rakers, six iron demiculverin drakes, four iron whole culverin drakes, and four iron demicannon drakes.”
“Media culebrina 10 to 18 833 5,000 12-pounder demiculverin.”
Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America
“On a demiculverin, a bronze mermaid held a turtle, and the other guns were decorated with arms, escutcheons, the founder's name, and so on.”
Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America
“The demiculverin was classed as the "feildpeece" _par excellence_, while the 4-pounder was so light”
Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America
“The 12-pounder quarter-cannon, incidentally, was "culverined" or reinforced so that it actually served in the field as a demiculverin.”
Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America
“I, above by the Angel, knew nothing of all this, but spied a fellow down there, busying himself about the trenches with a javelin in his hand; he was dressed entirely in rose-colour; and so, studying the worst that I could do against him, I selected a gerfalcon which I had at hand; it is a piece of ordnance larger and longer than a swivel, and about the size of a demiculverin.”
“It is a clumsy old-fashioned thing,' he returned, 'but I shall not remove it until I can put something better in its place; and it would be a troublesome affair to get even a demiculverin up here, not to mention the bad neighbour it would be to the ladies'chambers.”
“Her lower tyre [tier] hath thirty ports which are to be furnished with demicannon and whole cannon; her middle tyre hath also thirty ports for demiculverin and whole culverin; her third tyre hath twentie six ports for other ordnance; her forecastle hath twelve ports, and her half deck hath fourteen ports; she hath thirteen or fourteene ports more within board for murdering pieces, besides a great many loope-holes out of the cabins for musket shot.”
“a piece of ordnance larger and longer than a swivel, and about the size of a demiculverin.”
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