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Meanings of howitzer in English

Russian
гаубица
Portuguese
obus
Spanish
howitzer
Catalan
obús
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Type of artillery.

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          гаубица
          Portuguese
          obus
          Catalan
          morter
          Spanish
          obus

          A muzzle-loading high-angle gun with a short barrel that fires shells at high elevations for a short range.

                obus
                Usage of howitzer in English
                1
                The other officers of artillery were detached in the other four howitzer-boats.
                The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, V...
                2
                The guns were wheeled into position, and the first howitzer was fired.
                The Scouts of the Valley
                3
                Briefly summed up, the result is that the howitzer, firing a 3-lb.
                Fragments of Science: A Series of Detached Essays, Addresses, an...
                4
                One of them, Turner noticed, was crying as he destroyed his howitzer.
                Atonement
                5
                The next morning a brass howitzer was brought into camp, and delivered.
                What I Saw in California / A Description of Its Soil, Climate, P...
                6
                A howitzer lurked beside it, and this also was blown into ruin.
                The Great Boer War
                7
                German howitzer fire, from behind the ridge, however, soon destroyed the bridge.
                The Story of the Great War, Volume III (of 12) / The War Begins,...
                8
                He was holding leveled at them the bronze barrel of the howitzer.
                Blood Meridian
                9
                It was a howitzer broadside, slow, deliberate, but every shot a hit.
                The Masques of Ottawa
                10
                Maggie thought it had to be like standing next to a howitzer.
                Wife for hire
                11
                But then again, you don't need a howitzer to enforce the law.
                The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontie...
                12
                The Captain of the howitzer coils the lanyard around the lock.
                Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. / 1866. Fourth...
                13
                The Captain of the howitzer superintends and assists whenever it may be necessary.
                Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. / 1866. Fourth...
                14
                To-night we did not succeed in getting the howitzer into camp.
                The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and Cali...
                15
                Out of the distance came the brooding whine of an approaching howitzer shell.
                Pushed and the Return Push
                16
                History is silent concerning the last acts of the mountain howitzer.
                The Innocents Abroad
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