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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. 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

  1. n. A medium cannon, slightly larger than a saker and smaller than a culverin.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Mil. Antiq.) A kind of ordnance, carrying a ball weighing from nine to thirteen pounds.

Etymologies

  1. demi- +‎ culverin (Wiktionary)

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