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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 rangesplay

  Familiarity information: HIGH-ANGLE GUN used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


HIGH-ANGLE GUN (noun)


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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