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fieldpiece

/ ˈfiːldˌpiːs /

noun

  1. a former name for field gun


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Bart made out a long fuse trailing three feet or more over the side of the old fieldpiece.

Mick Kennedy trained his one eye like a fieldpiece upon the locality suggested.

One of the soldiers afterward told me that when the governor landed he was greeted with thirteen rounds from a fieldpiece.

They've brought up a fieldpiece, from goodness only knows where!

Before it grew too hot, they took me out to see the barracks and a ramshackle old fieldpiece which they seemed to idolise.

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