cow gun

noun

A type of heavy naval gun.

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Meanings

nouncow gun (plural cow guns)

plural cow guns

  1. colloquialA type of heavy naval gun.

    ‘In the intervals of the slow but well-directed fire of my cow-guns, Jules […] gave what you might call a cinematograph reproduction o' sporadic musketry.’

    1911, Rudyard Kipling, “The Horse Marines”, in A Diversity of Creatures, London: Macmillan and Co., […], published 1917, →OCLC, page 317
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