Crossword-Solution: SAKERS 6 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

Many a valiant captain, who might have been foremost at Marston Moor or Naseby, exhausted his martial ardor in the command of a log-built fortress, like that which you observe on the gently rising ground at the right of the pathway,—its banner fluttering in the breeze, and the culverins and sakers showing their deadly muzzles over the rampart.

And he hath of certain men as though they were yeomen, that keep birds, as ostriches, gerfalcons, sparrow-hawks, falcons gentle, lanyers, sakers, sakrets, popinjays well speaking, and birds singing, and also of wild beasts, as of elephants tame and other, baboons, apes, marmosets, and other diverse beasts; the mountance of fifteen cumants of yeomen.

Then let us bring our light artillery, Minions, falc'nets, and sakers, [133] to the trench, Filling the ditches with the walls' wide breach, And enter in to seize upon the hold.-- [134] How say you, soldiers, shall we not? SOLDIERS.

This place of strength was furnished with six great pieces, demiculverins and sakers, which shot directly in front upon us as we approached.

They have fair ordnance of brass of all sorts-bases, falcons, minions, sakers, culverins, cannons (double and royal), basilisks (long and large); they have six great pieces, whose shot is a yard of height, which shot a man may easily discern as they flee.