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carthoun

carthoun noun: a type of early cannon.

Noun

carthoun (plural carthouns)

  1. (historical) A type of early cannon.
    • There too went Master Wolff Danner […] and by his side, Böheim, the master of the gun-founders who made their burnished, beautifully ornamented gun-barrels, cannon, primitive guns and carthouns famous through the whole world.1960, Gottfried Keller, translated by AM Holt, Green Henry, Calder Publications, published 2010, page 437

Forms of carthoun

pluralcarthouns

Origin of carthoun

Borrowed from German Kartaune, from Italian quartana (“25-pounder cannon”).

Questions about carthoun

What does carthoun mean?
Carthoun means a type of early cannon.
What part of speech is carthoun?
Carthoun is a noun.
What is the plural of carthoun?
The plural of carthoun is carthouns.

Words near carthoun in the dictionary

  1. Carthen
  2. Carthens
  3. Carthew
  4. carthorse
  5. carthorses
  6. carthoun
  7. carthouns
  8. carthouse
  9. carthouses
  10. Carthusian
  11. Carthusianism

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