gun-carriages

Then there was a consonance to split the drums of the world's ears, followed by a horrific rattlings as of actual artillery – tens of thousands of gun-carriages simultaneously at the gallop, colliding, crashing, heeling over in the blackness.

A truly soggy boat race Tim Radford 2010

The forked lightning quivers through the clouds in a zig-zag scream of violins — and look, look, look! as the frothing, roaring waves come rushing up the battlements, and over the reeling parapet, each hissing wave becomes a ghost, sends the gun-carriages rolling over the platform, and plunges howling into the water again.

Roundabout Papers 2006

The grass was thick and rank here, for the horses were gone, gone to the war, to pull gun-carriages, not leap fences in the hunt.

Phoenix And Ashes Lackey, Mercedes 2004

The buildings were in a most ruinous state, and the gun-carriages quite rotten.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

The buildings were in a most ruinous state, and the gun-carriages quite rotten.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

There were vats of yellow and black paint that the French mixed to colour their gun-carriages, and which now the Marines spilled on to the road to mingle with the blood and ox-dung.

Sharpe's Siege Cornwell, Bernard 1987

He also brought to bear against it the strongest artillery ever used -- one hundred and six pieces of cannon and six immense mortars, "so heavy that they could not be raised on gun-carriages, they could only be loaded with stones, and were fired off not more than four times a day."

Bayard: the Good Knight Without Fear and Without Reproach Christopher Hare

Captain Percy Scott of the _Terrible_, inventor of the now celebrated gun-carriages, replaced Major Bethune as commandant of the forces defending the port, while the latter officer returned to the active command of the Uitlander corps.

South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899 Louis Creswicke

As he spoke they were passing by gaping walls and shattered gun-carriages.

The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 3, March, 1886 Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 3, March, 1886 Various

There is the rattle of the gun-carriages, like a running accompaniment of rifle fire; the jingle of the harness; the splendid, strenuous, willing pull of the horses straining against their collars.

Impressions of a War Correspondent George Lynch