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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A small mortar or short gun for throwing bombs, a howitzer.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Mil.) A small mortar on a gun carriage, in use before the howitzer.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun military, historical A small mortar on a gun carriage, in use before the howitzer.

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See howitzer.

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