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Definition: CARRONADE |
CARRONADENoun1. A kind of short cannon, formerly in use, designed to throw a large projectile with small velocity, used for the purpose of breaking or smashing in, rather than piercing, the object aimed at, as the side of a ship. It has no trunnions, but is supported on its carriage by a bolt passing through a loop on its under side. |
Note: Carronade \Car`ron*ade\, noun. [From Carron, in Scotland where it was first made.]. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Because of irregularities in the size of cannon balls and the difficulty of boring out gun barrels there was usually a considerable gap between the ball and the bore -- often as much as a quarter of an inch -- with a consequent loss of efficiency. This gap was known as the "windage." The manufacturing practices introduced by the Carron Company reduced the windage considerably.
The carronade was mounted on a sliding carriage with ropes to restrain the recoil. Lack of range against an opponent who could keep well clear and still use his long guns led to its disappearance in the mid-19th century.
Originally from http://www.cronab.demon.co.uk/gen1.htm, with the author's permission.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Carronade."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Arms | Gun, piece; firearms; artillery, ordnance; siege train, battering train; park, battery; cannon, gun of position, heavy gun, field piece, mortar, howitzer, carronade, culverin, basilisk; falconet, jingal, swivel, pederero, bouche a feu; petard, torpedo; mitrailleur, mitrailleuse; infernal machine; smooth bore, rifled cannon, Armstrong gun, Lancaster gun, Paixhan gun, Whitworth gun, Parrott gun, Krupp gun, Gatling gun, Maxim gun, machine gun; pompom; ten pounder. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| "CARRONADE" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "CARRONADE" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 66.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (proper) | 33.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
carronade | 2 |
carronade uss | 2 |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "CARRONADE": carronades. (additional references) | |
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"CARRONADE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Arronale, Carneddeu, Carnedoe, caruanae, citronnade. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "CARRONADE" (pronounced 'Car`ron*ade'): Accolade, Aggrade, Alidade, Arcade, Arquebusade, Aubade, Ballade, Ballotade, Balotade, Balustrade, Bambocciade, Barraclade, Bejade, Boutade, Bravade, Brocade, Calade, Camerade, Cassonade, Cavalcade, Centigrade, Chamade, Charade, Ciliograde, Cirrigrade, Citigrade, Cockade, Colonnade, Comrade, Corrade, Cottonade, Couvade, Croupade, Croustade, Decade, Defilade, Escapade, Escouade, Flanconade, Frescade, Gabionade, Gabionnade, Gade, grenade, handmade, harlequinade, homemade, lemonade, marinade, marmalade. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-e-n-o-r-r" | |
-1 letter: rancored. | |
-2 letters: adorner, corrade, readorn. | |
-3 letters: acnode, adorer, arcade, arcane, canard, candor, canoed, carder, cedarn, corder, cornea, corned, corner, craned, dancer, darner, deacon, droner, errand, nacred, rancor, record, roared. | |
-4 letters: acned, acorn, acred, adore, adorn, anear, anode, arced, ardor, areca, arena, cadre, caned, caner, canoe, cared, carer, cedar, coden, coder, coned, cored, corer, crane. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-d-e-n-o-r-r" | |
+1 letter: carronades. | |
+3 letters: archdeaconry, rhabdomancer. | |
+4 letters: rhabdomancers. | |
+5 letters: adrenocortical, archdeaconries, containerboard, procrastinated, rebroadcasting. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 41 52 52 4F 4E 41 44 45 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .- .-. .-. --- -. .- -.. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01000001 01010010 01010010 01001111 01001110 01000001 01000100 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C A R R O N A D E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0041 0052 0052 004F 004E 0041 0044 0045 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)373552524948353839 |
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