Licorne

Quick meaning: Licorne is a noun meaning (historical, military) A type of muzzle-loading gun-howitzer used by the Russian Empire in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Meaning

(historical, military) A type of muzzle-loading gun-howitzer used by the Russian Empire in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Example Sentences

But I think our new 24-pounder howitzer will be found superior to any of them, not even excepting the Russian Licorne.

Essentially a hybrid between a howitzer and a gun, thus a gun-howitzer, the licorne was capable of a flatter trajectory and a longer range than the conventional howitzer.

The Russians have a howitzer denominated licorne, the bore of which is, in its whole extent, the truncated frustrum of a cone: the only field guns in the possession of the artillery at Corfu, in 1822, were Russian guns of this description.

Word Forms

• licornes

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include unicorn, cyclorn, curtal, cohorn, coehorn, corneolus.

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