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