Noun:

ஹோவிட்ஸெர்,

howitzers's Usage Examples:

At the same time the commander of the artillery of the 1st Corps, General Pernetti, with thirty cannon of Campan's division and all the howitzers of Dessaix's and Friant's divisions, will move forward, open fire, and overwhelm with shellfire the enemy's battery, against which will operate:shellfish for consumption.

could be done by noting the amount of deflection for each range and applying it by means of a sliding leaf carrying the notch, and it is so done in howitzers; in most guns, however, it is found more convenient and sufficiently accurate to apply it automatically by inclining the socket through which the tangent scale rises.

-" High angle fire," as defined officially, " is fire at elevations greater than r 5°," and " curved fire is fire from howitzers at all angles of elevation not exceeding 15°.

With howitzers indirect laying is the rule, elevation being usually given by clinometer, direction by laying on banderols marking out the line of fire; then, when the direction has been established, an auxiliary mark, usually in rear, is selected and the line transferred to it.

Heavier howitzers had been sent for from Japan, and on the 1st of October the first batteries of 28 centimetre (11 in.

A battery of 11-inch howitzers was Metre fist established only one mile away.

, with, as a rule, one or two batteries of heavy field howitzers or mortars and a machine-gun group.

guns and howitzers, and about 200 field and mountain guns).

Synonyms:

mortar, trench mortar, high-angle gun,

Antonyms:

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