Pounders
[paʊndə]
Examples
- We had no siege guns except six thirty-two pounders, and there were none at the West to draw from. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Although intended to have only twenty guns, she was equipped, when finished, with thirty long 32-pounder guns and two Columbiad 100-pounders. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- In still later times cannon became known by the weight and the balls they carried, 6-pounders, 12-pounders, etc. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It could be seen that the eighteen-pounders and the howitzers did a great deal of execution. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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