mountain gun

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English

Noun

mountain gun (plural mountain guns)

  1. A gun or cannon specially adapted for use in mountainous terrain.
    • 1929, Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, Folio Society, published 2008, page 50:
      There were troops on this road and motor trucks and mules with mountain guns and as we went down, keeping to the side, I could see the river far down below []