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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A light cannon mounted on a carriage, used in manœuvers in the field.

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Examples

  • It required no revolution of his nature to learn to calculate the range and fire a field-gun or to march the goose-step.

    The Yellow Peril 2010

  • The enemy were German or Austrian, and they had a field-gun.

    Greenmantle 2005

  • Once more the mist had fled, and across the hollow I saw a field-gun in place and men around it who were not Turkish.

    Greenmantle 2005

  • The Turks had sent down an armoured train mounting a field-gun.

    Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

  • 'Old soldiers could liberate a field-gun from under your nose.

    Decider Francis, Dick 1993

  • Directly across from me there was a sudden colossal explosion in the flank entrenchments of the second line; bodies were flying like dolls, a field-gun went cartwheeling end over end, and a huge pillar of dust arose, like a genie from a bottle.

    Flashman And The Mountain Of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990

  • Most of the surviving French horses had been rounded up, bridled and were being used to carry packs or wounded men, among whom was Marine Matthew Robinson whose face looked as if it had received the full recoil of a twelve-pounder field-gun.

    Sharpe's Siege Cornwell, Bernard 1987

  • He could still see that silly little field-gun, it must have been around seventy or eighty millimeter, on a high wheeled carriage, drawn by six shaggy, bandy-legged beasts.

    Space Viking Piper, H. Beam 1963

  • Between the Carrier journeys the Dakota flew in field-gun ammunition and small arms, about the same number of trips.

    ROUND THE BEND Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1951

  • From corroborative evidence it now appears that this was the case; that the grenade thrown by him probably was the cause of the destruction of a small convoy carrying field-gun and howitzer ammunition, which now has been found a total wreck.

    The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol 1, Issue 4, January 23, 1915 Various

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