[
US
/ˈhaʊətsɝ/
]
[ UK /hˈaʊɪtsɐ/ ]
[ UK /hˈaʊɪtsɐ/ ]
NOUN
- a muzzle-loading high-angle gun with a short barrel that fires shells at high elevations for a short range
How To Use howitzer In A Sentence
- How about a derringer chambered for a 105mm howitzer round. And Now, A Really Manly Handgun
- Howitzers and mortars are more effective because of their ability to engage targets on reverse slopes.
- The task force later lost the howitzer battery, separate infantry platoon, and engineer platoon.
- Even Reeves's younger brother, under the full blast of a howitzer shell, had stood a better chance.
- A shot from the howitzer was to be the signal for the squadrons to charge. The memoirs of Colonel John S. Mosby,
- A howitzer is a field artillery piece, used primarily to attack enemy personnel, fortifications, and artillery emplacements.
- I happen to agree with Rumsfeld, but I'm disappointed in the howitzer's defenders, and I'm disturbed because so few analysts have broached what this fight is really all about.
- The cabinet contained drawers full of miniature soldiers - armies which went back to Roman and ancient Greek times, with all the accoutrements of war through the ages, from siege towers and ballistae to the howitzers and field gunsjust coming into service before the First World War. Final Resting Place of The Pen
- A new method of the calculation of nature - fragment mass distribution for small diameter howitzer projectile.
- The self propelled howitzer is designed to defeat unsheltered and covered manpower, weapons and materiel to division level.