screw-gun

As the storks flew northward the Negroes were marching southwarda long, dusty column, infantry, screw-gun batteries and then more infantry, four or five thousand men in all, winding up the road with a clumping of boots and a clatter of iron wheels.

Marrakech 1939

"Do you gentlemen of the screw-gun battery feel inclined to eat when you are being fired at with big guns, and Two Tails is behind you?"

The Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling 1900

Five years before, a chance-hurled shell from a screw-gun battery had dashed earth in the face of the Mullah, then urging a rush of Ghazis against half a dozen British bayonets.

Life's Handicap Rudyard Kipling 1900

As the storks flew northward the Negroes were marching southward — a long, dusty column, infantry, screw-gun batteries and then more infantry, four or five thousand men in all, winding up the road with a clumping of boots and a clatter of iron wheels.

Collected Essays 1900

When a battery -- a screw-gun mule calls gun-bullocks gentlemen, he must be very badly shaken up.

The Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling 1900

He belonged to a screw-gun battery, for I could hear the rattle of the straps and rings and chains and things on his saddle-pad.

The Jungle Book. 1893

"Do you gentlemen of the screw-gun battery feel inclined to eat when you are being fired at with big guns, and Two Tails is behind you?"

The Jungle Book. 1893

When a battery -- a screw-gun mule calls gun-bullock gentlemen, he must be very badly shaken up.

The Jungle Book. 1893

"I used to go from the Bank to Islington three times a day -- I mean," he added hurriedly, "before I became a screw -- I should say, a screw-gun horse."

Condensed Novels: New Burlesques Bret Harte 1869

a screw-gun battery, for I could hear the rattle of the straps and rings and chains and things on his saddle pad.

The Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling 1900