Crossword-Solution: FIELDPIECE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Fieldpiece | n. | A cannon mounted on wheels, for the use of a marching army; a piece of field artillery; -- called also field gun. |
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| Clue | Answers |
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| "Little Boy Blue" | 1 answer |
| a cannon or piece of artillery used in the field of battle | 1 answer |
| Army weapon | 2 answers |
| CANNON ___ | 55 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
AEAR
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with FIELDPIECE (5)
They artfully caused an old brass fieldpiece to be left on a wharf near the scene of our late operations.
The charge of powder was so great that it went off like a young fieldpiece, and the elephant fell upon his knees; but, again recovering himself, he turned and went off at such a pace that he left the herd behind, and in a few minutes I was within twenty yards of them; I would not fire, as I was determined to bag my wounded bird before I fired a single shot at another.
His hopes of a crown faded rapidly, and when the army reached Lisbon it had dwindled to not much more than four thousand effective men--the rest being dead of dysentery, or on the sick-list from imprudence in eating and drinking--while they found that they had made an unfortunate omission in their machinery for assailing the capital, having not a single fieldpiece in the whole army.
Besides these, when the expedition started, there were twenty gunboats, each carrying one fieldpiece, from 24's to 9-pounders; or, in some cases, howitzers.[5] "By all these means," wrote Douglas on July 21st, "our acquiring an absolute dominion over Lake Champlain is not doubted of." The expectation was perfectly sound.
Before it grew too hot, they took me out to see the barracks and a ramshackle old fieldpiece which they seemed to idolise.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1984–1988).