gun carriage

gun carriage

English

Noun

gun carriage (plural gun carriages)

1. A metal or wooden frame on which a piece of ordnance is mounted for firing or transportation.
   • 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], OCLC 752825175, page 035:

     But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶ […] The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window at the old mare feeding in the meadow below by the brook, and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge, little dreaming that the deadly tube was levelled at them.

Translations

metal frame on which a piece of ordnance is mounted for firing or transportation

Esperanto: afusto Finnish: lavetti (fi) French: affût (fr) m Irish: carráiste gunna m, gunnacharráiste m Italian: treno (it) m, affusto (it) m

Manx: carriads gunney m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: та̏бља f Roman: tȁblja (sh) f