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An obsolete short light iron cannon differing from guns and howitzers in having no trunnions and used on ships to throw heavy shot at close quarters and on shore as a howitzer.

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  • A carronade is a short cannon of large calibre, but of very short range.
  • Sharpe jerked his chin up toward the forecastle carronade.
  • The captain stood on the carronade: 'First lieutenant,' says he,
  • The captain stood on the carronade: 'First Lieutenant,' says he 174
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