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field gun

field gun noun: an artillery piece, originally a smaller gun that could accompany a field army on the march and when in combat could be moved about the battlefield in response to changing circumstances.

Noun

field gun (plural field guns)

  1. An artillery piece, originally a smaller gun that could accompany a field army on the march and when in combat could be moved about the battlefield in response to changing circumstances.
    • When the Japanese armies captured Pingrang on 15th September, they discovered that 35 good field guns were left behind, together with hundreds of magazine rifles and hundreds more of breechloaders. The amount of ammunition captured was also enormous.⁴⁷ If the spoils were already so substantial, the...1996 October, Allen Fung, “Testing the Self-Strengthening: The Chinese Army in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894–1895”, in Modern Asian Studies, volume 30, number 4, →ISSN, →JSTOR, →OCLC, page 1017

Forms of field gun

pluralfield guns
alternative formfieldgun

Questions about field gun

What does field gun mean?
Field gun means an artillery piece, originally a smaller gun that could accompany a field army on the march and when in combat could be moved about the battlefield in response to changing circumstances.
What part of speech is field gun?
Field gun is a noun.
What is the plural of field gun?
The plural of field gun is field guns.

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  10. field hands
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