howitzer

• 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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