A muzzle-loading high-angle gun with a short barrel that fires shells at high elevations for a short range.
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Examples for "mortar "
Examples for "mortar "
1 Of course, that doesn't mean brick - and - mortar stores are going away anytime soon.
2 Took away the mortar in his pockets; no sign of it here.
3 Do we compromise our skin's health by constantly scrubbing off the mortar ?
4 Earlier, Palestinians fired a mortar shell at an Israeli settlement in Gaza.
5 In the simplest form, the sugar cane is crushed in a mortar .
1 The other officers of artillery were detached in the other four howitzer - boats .
2 The guns were wheeled into position, and the first howitzer was fired.
3 Briefly summed up, the result is that the howitzer , firing a 3-lb.
4 One of them, Turner noticed, was crying as he destroyed his howitzer .
5 The next morning a brass howitzer was brought into camp, and delivered.
1 The use of phosgene in trench mortar bombs also began in 1916.
2 A German trench mortar shell filled with scraps of iron and nails.
3 To compare a Roman catapult with a modern trench mortar seems absurd.
4 Every form of bomb, catapult, and trench mortar was ready to hand.
5 Our trench mortar was being worked energetically to keep back any German reinforcements.
6 Hugo landed behind the débris with a small German trench mortar in his arms.
7 A few also received some instruction in a rather primitive form of trench mortar .
8 One trench mortar would consume in an hour plum puddings for an orphan school.
9 A German "Minnie" ( trench mortar ) had exploded in the next traverse.
10 A high-power trench mortar shell of the Germans, which makes no noise coming through the air.
11 One brigade of artillery, consisting of three regiments of field artillery, and one trench mortar battery.
12 Have you reported where that trench mortar is?
13 Most of it's composed by myself, as there isn't a drill book for trench mortar batteries.
14 That day I left the battalion to take a course of instruction in the Stokes trench mortar .
15 Before the French had cleared the trench the Germans opened a leisurely bombardment with a trench mortar .
16 He got this for lifting his trench mortar over the parapet when all the detachment were killed.
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