carthoun

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English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from German Kartaune, from Italian quartana (“25-pounder cannon”).

Noun

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carthoun (plural carthouns)

  1. (historical) A type of early cannon.
    • 1960, Gottfried Keller, translated by AM Holt, Green Henry, Calder Publications, published 2010, page 437:
      There too went Master Wolff Danner […] and by his side, Böheim, the master of the gun-founders who made their burnished, beautifully ornamented gun-barrels, cannon, primitive guns and carthouns famous through the whole world.
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