fieldpiece

/ (ˈfiːldˌpiːs) /

noun

a former name for field gun

Words nearby fieldpiece

fieldgate, fielding, fielding average, fielding, henry, fieldmouse, fieldpiece, fields, fields, w. c., fieldsman, fieldstone, fieldwork

Example sentences from the Web for fieldpiece

  • Guns had been fired from this quarter and that, German cannon or French, ordnance or fieldpiece.

    Six Women and the Invasion |Gabrielle Yerta

  • Meanwhile, the fellow who was driving the mules attached to the fieldpiece, turned his head, and saw what was going on.

    Tom Cringle's Log |Michael Scott

  • They've brought up a fieldpiece, from goodness only knows where!

    Captured at Tripoli |Percy F. Westerman

  • One of the soldiers afterward told me that when the governor landed he was greeted with thirteen rounds from a fieldpiece.

    Benjamin of Ohio |James Otis