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HIGH-ANGLE GUN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does high-angle gun mean?
• HIGH-ANGLE GUN (noun)
The noun HIGH-ANGLE GUN has 1 sense:
1. a cannon that can be fired at a high elevation for relatively short ranges
Familiarity information: HIGH-ANGLE GUN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A cannon that can be fired at a high elevation for relatively short ranges
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("high-angle gun" is a kind of...):
cannon (a large artillery gun that is usually on wheels)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "high-angle gun"):
howitzer; mortar; trench mortar (a muzzle-loading high-angle gun with a short barrel that fires shells at high elevations for a short range)
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