[
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
- Nemours showed him at once what use to make of the army under his orders, and having enfiladed his National Guard battalions, and placed his artillery in echelons, he formed his cavalry into hollow squares on the right and left of his line, flinging out a cloud of howitzers to fall back upon the main column. Burlesques
- They also offer a look into little-known innovations, such as precision artillery shells for howitzers developed for the US Army.
- The SP Howitzer shall have a laser ignition system that shall provide for a minimum of 30 ignitions without replenishment of the ignition source.
- Around the bays, the continent's ancient ice-cap creeps inexorably down to the sea in shelves that crack and avalanche with the sound of howitzer blasts.
- For the first time since the U.S. deployment, the factions use their heavy weapons systems: howitzers, heavy machine guns, mortars, and even a few older-model tanks.
- On the way out, I was stuck behind a guy pulling a howitzer on a trailer that was covered in confederate flag stickers.
- Both pilots took turns calculating the power required to safely drop off the howitzer at Bagram.
- We crossed quickly, followed by the rifle and the howitzer and the rearguard.
- Long and short range artillery, rockets, missiles, howitzers, and mortars rained fire and death from the sky.
- It is the primary instrument used to orient the howitzers onto the azimuth of fire.