demiculverin

English

Alternative forms

• demi-culverin

Etymology

From demi- +‎ culverin.

Noun

demiculverin (plural demiculverins)

1. (now historical) A medium cannon, slightly larger than a saker and smaller than a culverin.
   • 1999, Mike Mitchell, translating HJC von Grimmelshausen, Simplicissimus, III.10, Dedalus 2016, p. 230:

     It made such a thunderous noise that anyone would have sworn blind they were great siege guns or demi-culverins [translating halbe Carthaunen].