howitzer

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  1. noun A relatively short cannon that delivers shells at a medium muzzle velocity, usually by a high trajectory.

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  • I had myself just fired an 8-inch howitzer, and gone to the rear to observe the effect of the other shots. —  Henry Ossian Flipper, The Colored Cadet at West Point
  • It later explained that shells being loaded for a howitzer, identified from photographs as phosphorus rounds, were empty "quiet" shells used for target marking. —  Signs of the Times
  • The brain may be injured by the noise, which is produced when, for example, an anti-tank weapon or a howitzer is fired. —  THE STEEL DEAL
  • BAE Systems on Saturday celebrated the delivery of its 500th M777 howitzer, the revolutionary artillery weapon that can hurl a standard 43.5 kg shell to almost 30 kilometres at 2.5 times the speed of sound, to the US military.
  • A way was cleared for the howitzer, and the roar that burst from its iron throat woke a hundred forest echoes A great cloud of bluish smoke hid the scene for a moment, and when it drifted and rolled upward, our short-lived opportunity was gone. —  The Cryptogram A Story of Northwest Canada
 

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  1. Dutch houwitser, from German Haubitze, alteration of obsolete haufnitz, catapult, from Old Czech haufnice, probably from haufnþ, catapult that slung many stones at once : hauf, group, heap (from probably from Middle High German hūfe, from Old High German hūfo) + -ny, n. suff.

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  1. from howitz + -er.
 

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/ˈhaʊɪtsər/
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