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carthouns

carthouns is the plural of carthoun.

Meaning of carthoun

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

Questions about carthouns

What is carthouns the plural of?
Carthouns is the plural of carthoun.

Words near carthouns in the dictionary

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

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