A carronade is a short cannon of large calibre, but of very short range.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference

Sharpe jerked his chin up toward the forecastle carronade.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharpe's Devil]

The captain stood on the carronade: 'First lieutenant,' says he.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lyra Heroica A Book of Verse for Boys] Reference

The captain stood on the carronade: 'First Lieutenant,' says he 174.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lyra Heroica A Book of Verse for Boys] Reference

Hornblower began by glowering down at the starboard-dide quarter-reck carronade.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hornblower And The Hotspur]

He fidgeted in the bow, leaning on the carronade to stare upriver under his hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flashman's Lady]

A fountain spewed up on the starboard side, spattering one of the carronade crews.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharpe's Trafalgar]

Foreman was yelling, wild with excitement, to the crew of the quarter-reck carronade.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hornblower And The Hotspur]

Again the starboard carronade was fired, which cleared the French ship's gangway in a moment.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference

" He patted his carronade, his 'smasher, " which was as ugly a weapon as any Sharpe had seen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharpe's Trafalgar]

We put on board her a twelve-pounder carronade and mounted four half-pound swivels on her gunwales.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Sailor of King George] Reference

A bronze carronade, retrieved from Napoleon's 120-gun flagship L'Orient, is hoisted aboard a research vessel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Napoleon's Lost Fleet] Reference

Harper grinned, then instinctively ducked as another carronade fired, this one from the forecastle above them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharpe's Devil]

It was a carronade, five feet long, with a bore of five and one-quarter inches, charged with four pounds of powder.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885] Reference

Nelson's terrible sixty-eight pounder carronade from the "Victory's" forecastle was turned chiefly against that ship.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference

Ardiles's men on the quarterdeck had at last seen the threat of the forecastle carronade and a dozen muskets were leveled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharpe's Devil]

Ardiles's men on the quarterdeck had at last seen the threat of the forecastle carronade and a dozen muskets were levelled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharpe's Devil]

Three guns, any quantity of smaller arms, and a long Tom, formed her armament, while the long-boat had a carronade in her bows.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cord and Creese] Reference

The Reindeer mounted sixteen 24 pound carronades, two long 6 or 9 pounders, and a shifting 12 pound carronade, with a complement.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876] Reference

The boatswain was in the bows of the long-boat and as the Malays crowded into their craft he took aim with the carronade and fired.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cord and Creese] Reference

The shot came in our third aftermost port on the starboard side, and dismounted the carronade, smashing the slide and wounding three men.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy A weird series of tales of shipwreck and disaster, from the earliest part of the century to the present time, with accounts of providential escapes and heart-rending fatalities.] Reference

The outpost -- which, in virtue of a ship's carronade and a flagstaff, was occasionally styled a "fort" -- consisted of four wooden buildings.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Idler Magazine, Volume III, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference

The order was shouted on board the Mary Starbuck, and the carronade belched a bellyful of iron scraps and links of rusted chain up at the Espiritu Santa's waist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharpe's Devil]

Across the drawbridge, promptly lowered at the sound of our joyful shouting, I saw my wife standing beside the big carronade that commanded the roadway up the hill.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales of Destiny] Reference

Saying this, he bound his foot up in his neck-handkerchief and served out double allowance until his carronade was dismounted by the carriage of it being shattered to pieces.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Sailor of King George] Reference

They would have to deal with the extra weight of the boat carronade that backed that anchor; the additional labour was the price to be paid for the security of the past days.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hornblower And The Hotspur]

Aaron was close beside me, sitting on a carronade slide, while the surgeon was dressing a pike wound in his neck.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Cringle's Log] Reference

"Cast loose that carronade there; clap in a canister of grape, so now run it forward, and fire down the hatchway.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Cringle's Log] Reference