carthoun

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noun

A type of early cannon.

OriginGerman Kartaune ← Italian quartana →
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Meanings

nouncarthoun (plural carthouns)

plural carthouns

  1. historicalA type of early cannon.

    There too went Master Wolff Danner […] and by his side, Böheim, the master of the gun-founders who made their burnished, beautifully ornamented gun-barrels, cannon, primitive guns and carthouns famous through the whole world.

    1960, Gottfried Keller, translated by AM Holt, Green Henry, Calder Publications, published 2010, page 437

Origin

  1. Italianquartana“25-pounder cannon”
  2. GermanKartaune
  3. Englishcarthoun

Borrowed from German Kartaune, from Italian quartana (“25-pounder cannon”).

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APA

carthoun. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/carthoun

MLA

“carthoun.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/carthoun. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “carthoun,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/carthoun.

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