howitzer
noun
Examples of howitzer in a Sentence
Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2024
By 2023 the five-ton, five-person howitzers—which lob 100-pound, 155-millimeter shells as far as 18 miles without rocket-assistance—were among the best and most important big guns in Ukrainian service.
—David Axe, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
When these lawmakers declined to approve further aid to Ukraine starting in October—coincidentally, around the same time the Russians attacked Avdiivka—the howitzers the 110th Brigade was counting on to turn Avdiivka’s flanks into an artillery kill-zone began to fall silent.
—David Axe, Forbes, 11 Feb. 2024
This supplemental unlocks $6 billion for our sub capacity to build subs, $5 billion to produce 155 millimeter howitzer rounds, and everything in between, javelins, stingers, tomahawks.
—CBS News, 3 Mar. 2024
Mostly howitzers firing from the Dnipro’s right bank.
—David Axe, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
The red-hot steel cylinder will be cooled and packed with explosives before reaching its destination: bolstering NATO stockpiles or, perhaps, being fired down the barrel of a Ukrainian howitzer.
—Emily Rauhala, Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2024
In four months of assaults on Avdiivka, the Russian 2nd and 41st Combined Armies have lost tens of thousands of troops—killed and maimed—plus nearly 700 tanks, fighting vehicles and howitzers.
—David Axe, Forbes, 16 Feb. 2024
No, the Russians would use the T-55s and hundreds of other restored obsolete tanks as crude howitzers: position them under cover many miles from the front, angle their guns high in the air and fire at the Ukrainians without risking direct return fire.
—David Axe, Forbes, 9 Feb. 2024
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Word History
Dutch houwitser, ultimately from Czech houfnice ballista
1695, in the meaning defined above
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howitzer
noun
from Dutch houwitser "howitzer," derived from a Czechoslovakian word for "catapult"
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