(n.) A weapon which throws or propels a missile to a distance; any firearm or instrument for throwing projectiles by the explosion of gunpowder, consisting of a tube or barrel closed at one end, in which the projectile is placed, with an explosive charge behind, which is ignited by various means. Muskets, rifles, carbines, and fowling pieces are smaller guns, for hand use, and are called small arms. Larger guns are called cannon, ordnance, fieldpieces, carronades, howitzers, etc. See these terms in the Vocabulary.
(n.) A piece of heavy ordnance; in a restricted sense, a cannon.
(n.) Violent blasts of wind.
(v. i.) To practice fowling or hunting small game; -- chiefly in participial form; as, to go gunning.
Example Sentences:
(1) Biden will meet with representatives from six gun groups on Thursday, including the NRA and the Independent Firearms Owners Association, which are both publicly opposed to stricter gun-control laws.
(2) Where he has taken a stand, like on gun control after the shootings in Newtown, Connecticut, Obama was unable to achieve legislative change.
(3) The information about her father's semi-brainwashing forms an interesting backdrop to Malala's comments when I ask if she ever wonders about the man who tried to kill her on her way back from school that day in October last year, and why his hands were shaking as he held the gun – a detail she has picked up from the girls in the school bus with her at the time; she herself has no memory of the shooting.
(4) One might expect that a similar news spike and rebounding of support for stricter gun control can happen, given President Obama's new push.
(5) But at least one customer signalled that America's gun lobby might be on the cusp of a moment of introspection.
(6) The Guardian neglects to mention 150,000 privately owned guns or that Palestinians are banned from bearing arms.
(7) said Wanis Kilani, a uniformed rebel driving a pickup truck with a machine-gun mounted on the back.
(8) At one, in the Gun and Dog pub in Leeds on Tuesday, a witness described how the meeting descended into chaos when one of the rebels smashed a glass and threatened to attack Griffin supporter Mark Collett.
(9) Asked if France had “jumped the gun and didn’t tell us”, Fox said he was notaware of anyone in government who knew about the impending airstrikes.
(10) "He [Copernicus] stuck to his guns when he came under fire for it, and he was right."
(11) In combination, the features of these vectors afford useful advantages over expression vectors previously described, especially for the application of shot-gun cloning of genomic DNA to generate expression libraries.
(12) Hours after the firefight ended, and just a few dozen kilometres away, a "very reliable" member of the Afghan local police turned his gun on two British soldiers.
(13) I went to see the Who recently, which was fantastic, but the band I truly love has to be the one I first got into, Guns N' Roses.
(14) Regarding the shots fired from Brelo’s gun, O’Donnell said they could have been the ones causing death, but so could others fired by other officers before his shots from the hood of the vehicle.
(15) He casts his history of bipartisan negotiation as a form of steamrolling practicality, and many of his actual policies, save regarding gun control, fit comfortably within the far right framework.
(16) Trying to escape, speaker Mohammed Magariaf's jeep was hit by a fusillade of machine-gun fire.
(17) When the vote came, she and the other gun law advocates who crowded into the public gallery had been told not to talk, stand or take notes.
(18) Following a mass killing at a Colorado cinema in July, applications to buy guns rose more than 40% in a week.
(19) The coroner also raised concerns that although the aim of the operation in which Duggan was killed was to take guns off the streets, little attempt was made to seize weapons believed to be held by Hutchinson-Foster.
(20) Any unilateral action by the president seemed sure to inflame gun advocates, who argue that gun sales are protected under the second amendment and who equate gun control with tyranny.
Howitzer
Definition:
(n.) A gun so short that the projectile, which was hollow, could be put in its place by hand; a kind of mortar.
(n.) A short, light, largebore cannon, usually having a chamber of smaller diameter than the rest of the bore, and intended to throw large projectiles with comparatively small charges.
Example Sentences:
(1) At the place where adorable meets obnoxious and the purr becomes a shriek, Leslie Mann is waiting to unload a howitzer of funny in your face.
(2) Although Kiev and the self-declared separatist republics both claimed that the withdrawal of heavy weapons from the frontline had been completed, OSCE monitors reported eight tanks near the line on the government-controlled side and a self-propelled howitzer near the line on the rebel side on Wednesday.
(3) The marines are free to fire their four 155mm howitzers and other artillery unilaterally if they see Isis forces or if nearby Americans or Iraqis come under assault.
(4) Reina punches the inswinger clear for a throw and they eran another when Skrtel nods out Gunnarsson's howitzer.
(5) The Battle of the Somme began on 1 July 1916 and lasted until mid-November; by the time it ended, more than a million soldiers were dead, probably including the Welsh Guards in this photograph, whose hapless task was to recapture the village of Guillemont from the industrialised German army with its howitzers, flamethrowers and big-bellied zeppelins.
(6) An argument could be made for even further cuts in artillery regiments and armoured cavalry units as the army gets rid of heavy tanks and howitzers.
(7) Furthermore, the two impulse sources were equally hazardous when the peak pressure of the rifle impulse was lower than the peak pressure of the howitzer impulse by about 9 dB.
(8) Seoul had deployed multiple rocket launchers and long-range howitzers on Yeonpyeong after last week's artillery exchange, and inhabitants on the tiny island were warned earlier today to take shelter tomorrow morning.
(9) Ambassador David Hale said the equipment includes more than 70 M198 howitzers and more than 26m rounds of ammunition and artillery “of all shapes and sizes, including heavy artillery”.
(10) In terms of A-weighted energy, the exposures were equally hazardous when the rifle exposure contained about 35 times less energy than the howitzer exposure.
(11) Four howitzers were fired in a nearby field, air force fighter jets streaked over the island, with one peeling off in a “missing man” formation, and navy patrol ships blasted horns.
(12) Britain is confident that a deal to buy 145 M777 Howitzer artillery pieces, manufactured by BAE Systems, to India at a cost of around $0.5bn will soon be sealed.
(13) "I have ordered (the military) to secure the defence of Mariupol with howitzers, multiple rocket launchers, tanks, anti-tank weapons and air cover," said the Ukrainian president, dressed in military-style fatigues.
(14) To supplement these data, histological data are reported here for 51 cats that were exposed on one occasion to either rifle or howitzer impulses at peak pressures from 145 to 155 dB or 153 to 166 dB, respectively.
(15) For both types of impulse the losses tended to be in the middle of the cochlea in focused lesions, even though the spectral peaks of the acoustic stimuli had been at about 80 Hz (howitzer) and 1000 Hz (rifle).
(16) The Russian television channel REN-TV reported that one of its cameramen was wounded at the Izvarino crossing when a howitzer shell landed nearby, the latest casualty among the Russian press after a Channel One cameraman was killed by Ukrainian gunfire on Sunday night.
(17) Howitzer shells, mortars and rockets have struck numerous buildings in Slavyansk and nearby towns.
(18) In order to augment the data on hearing loss to low-spectral-frequency impulses, three groups of cats (eight, nine, and ten animals) were exposed on one occasion to 50 impulses from a 105-mm howitzer at peak SPLs of 153, 159, and 166 dB.
(19) A mixed force of Jathran's rebels, Cyrenaican militias and army units complete with howitzers was deployed at the Red Wadi, a valley blocking approaches to the ports.
(20) Pack up from work early, tell your other half the cinema is closed for refurbishment and feast your eyes on these two howitzers: 5pm BST - France v Germany 9pm BST - Brazil v Colombia 8.38am BST Some interesting stuff on the great Philipp Lahm debate from Raphael Honigstein during last night's Germany v Algeria game.