carthoun
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from German Kartaune, from Italian quartana (“25-pounder cannon”).
Noun edit
carthoun (plural carthouns)
- (historical) A type of early cannon.
- 1960, Gottfried Keller, translated by AM Holt, Green Henry, Calder Publications, published 2010, page 437:
- 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.