culverin: The culverin is a medium cannon firing an 18 lb shot. From Wordnik.com. [Cannon for Pathfinder « Geek Related] Reference
Bases were of the high penetration or 'culverin' type. From Wordnik.com. [Fighting Instructions, 1530-1816 Publications Of The Navy Records Society Vol. XXIX.] Reference
Tercio de culebrina 14 to 22 18-pounder third-culverin. From Wordnik.com. [Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America] Reference
Doble culebrina 40 and up 30 to 32 48-pounder culverin. From Wordnik.com. [Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America] Reference
Thus, a 30-pounder culverin would get 30 pounds of powder. From Wordnik.com. [Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America] Reference
Legitimate culverin ¦ 9 ¦ 6-1/2 ¦ 4 ¦ Double-fortified. From Wordnik.com. [Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America] Reference
Small culverin 2,000 gp 4d10 2000 lbs. 150 ft. Light 2 3/2. From Wordnik.com. [Cannon for Pathfinder « Geek Related] Reference
The bore length of a legitimate culverin, said Collado, was. From Wordnik.com. [Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America] Reference
Culebrina real 24 to 40 30 to 32 32-pounder culverin royal. From Wordnik.com. [Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America] Reference
Most of the guns were probably of culverin length: 30 - to 32-caliber. From Wordnik.com. [Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America] Reference
It was an old Turkish culverin, just too heavy for anyone else to lift. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Corelli's Mandolin]
“And one culverin three of their footy little ordnance,” said another. From Wordnik.com. [Westward Ho!] Reference
Dale, two demy culverin and one sacre; fortifications against a domestique enimie very mean. From Wordnik.com. [Colonial Records of Virginia] Reference
Common culverin; ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ reinforced cannon ¦ 8 ¦ 5-1/2 ¦ 3-1/2 ¦ Legitimate culverin. From Wordnik.com. [Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America] Reference
Since it had almost as much metal as a culverin, it lacked the defects of the chambered pieces. From Wordnik.com. [Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America] Reference
The ships are 200 yards apart, which is three range increments out for the culverin (-6 range). From Wordnik.com. [Cannon for Pathfinder « Geek Related] Reference
In a short culverin (say, 24 calibers long instead of 30), the gunner used 24/30 of a standard charge. From Wordnik.com. [Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America] Reference
To move a heavy English cannon, even over good ground, it took 23 horses; a culverin needed nine beasts. From Wordnik.com. [Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America] Reference
Spanish mathematician of the sixteenth century, used the culverin ladle as the master pattern (fig. 45). From Wordnik.com. [Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America] Reference
A typical Spanish cannon was only about two-thirds as long as a culverin, and the bore walls were thinner. From Wordnik.com. [Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America] Reference
Then while the survivors ran away, the outlaws took the hot culverin, and rolled it down into their valley. From Wordnik.com. [Lorna Doone] Reference
There was a culverin-shot passed through the tent of H. de Rohan, which hit a gentleman leg who was of his household. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
And for "traditional" muzzleloader types we could issue a commemorative culverin with Bilbo Baggins face etched into it. From Wordnik.com. [Miscellaneous Whining From The 2007 SHOT Show] Reference
If the gunner came across a culverin only 24 calibers long, he must load this piece with only 24/30 of the ball's weight. From Wordnik.com. [Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America] Reference
Naturally, the powder charge was also reduced (half the ball's weight for a common cannon, while a culverin took double that amount). From Wordnik.com. [Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America] Reference
And so indeed I found him, as well as three other poor fellows, struck by the charge of the culverin, which had passed so close beside me. From Wordnik.com. [Lorna Doone] Reference
Oh, I am calm, sir, calm as a discharged culverin. From Wordnik.com. [The Comedies of William Congreve Volume 1 [of 2]] Reference
The culverin, ukase, and door-tender were all fired. From Wordnik.com. [The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IX (of X)] Reference
"But I am sure thereof -- as sure as a culverin shot.". From Wordnik.com. [Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada] Reference
Almost at the same instant the galley's culverin spoke again. From Wordnik.com. [The Cruise of the Nonsuch Buccaneer] Reference
It is in the form of a culverin -- a long slender cannon of the period -- standing upright. From Wordnik.com. [Pagan and Christian Rome] Reference
Chaligny, the celebrated gun-founder of Lorraine, who cast the famous culverin, twenty-two feet high. From Wordnik.com. [Renée Mauperin] Reference
It was a bronze culverin of large bore, taken as a trophy from the stranded wreck of a Spanish galleon. From Wordnik.com. [Blackbeard: Buccaneer] Reference
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