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Field gun   /fild gən/   Listen
Field gun

noun
1.
Movable artillery (other than antiaircraft) used by armies in the field (especially for direct support of front-line troops).  Synonym: field artillery.






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"Field gun" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the canal bank, and one were on the back of the bank, five, eight, or ten seconds later one would hear a belated WHIRR, and curved pieces of shell would light—probably parabolic curves or boomerangs. These shells have a great back kick; from the field gun shrapnel we got nothing BEHIND the shell—all the pieces go forward. From the howitzers, the danger is almost as great behind as in front if they burst on percussion. Then the large shrapnel—air-burst—have a double explosion, as if a giant ...
— In Flanders Fields and Other Poems - With an Essay in Character, by Sir Andrew Macphail • John McCrae



Words linked to "Field gun" :   artillery, gun, heavy weapon, ordnance



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