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demi-culverin

demi-culverin is the alternative form of demiculverin.

Meaning of demiculverin

Noun

demiculverin (plural demiculverins)

  1. (historical) A medium cannon, slightly larger than a saker and smaller than a culverin.
    • It made such a thunderous noise that anyone would have sworn blind they were great siege guns or demi-culverins [translating halbe Carthaunen].1999, Mike Mitchell, translating HJC von Grimmelshausen, Simplicissimus, III.10, Dedalus 2016, p. 230

Forms of demi-culverin

pluraldemi-culverins

Questions about demi-culverin

What is demi-culverin the alternative form of?
Demi-culverin is the alternative form of demiculverin.

Words near demi-culverin in the dictionary

  1. demexiptiline
  2. demi
  3. demi-
  4. demi-cannon
  5. demi-caractère
  6. demi-culverin
  7. demi-culverine
  8. demi-culverines
  9. demi-culverins
  10. demi-glace
  11. demi-glaces

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