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Columbiad

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Co`lum´bi`ad
n.1.(Mil.) A form of seacoast cannon; a long, chambered gun designed for throwing shot or shells with heavy charges of powder, at high angles of elevation.


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Second, that the gun should be a Columbiad cast in iron, 900 feet long, and run perpendicularly into the earth.
Round The Moon by Verne, Jules View in context
The Rodman Columbiad threw a shot weighing half a ton a distance of six miles, with a velocity of 800 yards per second-- a result which Armstrong and Palisser have never obtained in England.
From The Earth To The Moon by Verne, Jules View in context
A mountain, to be sure, by the mere sentiment of physical magnitude which it conveys, does impress us with a sense of the sublime but no man is impressed after this fashion by the material grandeur of even "The Columbiad.
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