英语词汇“six、pounder”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

six-pounder

释义

six-pounder|ˈsɪkspaʊndə(r)|
[f. six a. + pounder n.⁴]
1. A cannon throwing shot six pounds in weight.
1684J. Peter Relat. Siege of Vienna 108 Six pounders, 2.1748Anson's Voy. ii. iv. 169 Four six pounders, four four pounders, and two swivels.1790Beatson Naval & Milit. Mem. II. 166 A light brass six-pounder to be fixed in the bow of their long-boat.1838Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl. I. 347/1 The report was smart like that of a six-pounder.1876Bancroft Hist. U.S. V. xx. 568 Cornwallis planted..some six-pounders on his own left.
fig.1797in Lockhart Scott (1837) I. viii. 263 Clerk and I are continually obliged to open a six-pounder upon him in self-defence.
attrib.1810Wellington in Gurw. Desp. (1838) VI. 220 The Portuguese six pounder brigade.
b. A shot weighing six pounds.
1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xvi. III. 628 He was himself hit by a second ball, a sixpounder.
†2. (See quot.) Obs.^—0
1785Grose Dict. Vulgar T., Six pounder, a servant maid, from the wages formerly given to maid servants, which was commonly six pounds.

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