Meanings
nounmountain gun (plural mountain guns)
plural mountain guns
- A gun or cannon specially adapted for use in mountainous terrain.
There were troops on this road and motor trucks and mules with mountain guns and as we went down, keeping to the side, I could see the river far down below […]
1929, Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, Folio Society, published 2008, page 50
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