howitzer
noun
how·it·zer
ˈhau̇-ət-sər 
: a short cannon used to fire projectiles at medium muzzle velocities and with relatively high trajectories
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Parayko sets offensive career highs In his 700th NHL game, Blues defenseman Parayko scored his seventh goal of the season on a howitzer of a shot Saturday in Columbus.
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Jeremy Rutherford, The Athletic, 6 Jan. 2025
This includes 128 armored vehicles for troop movements and reconnaissance, Caesar howitzers, anti-tank missile units, surface-to-air missiles and battlefield radars.
—Fox News, 15 Nov. 2024
By then, the 155th Mechanized Brigade should be fully deployed in Pokrovsk with its German tanks, French howitzers and 2,000 fresh soldiers.
—David Axe, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024
Freuding also reportedly noted that Germany had supplied Ukraine with artillery howitzers, tanks and Marder infantry fighting vehicles, in addition to launching an attack drone program, according to Pravda.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2024
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Jeremy Rutherford, The Athletic, 6 Jan. 2025
This includes 128 armored vehicles for troop movements and reconnaissance, Caesar howitzers, anti-tank missile units, surface-to-air missiles and battlefield radars.
—Fox News, 15 Nov. 2024
By then, the 155th Mechanized Brigade should be fully deployed in Pokrovsk with its German tanks, French howitzers and 2,000 fresh soldiers.
—David Axe, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024
Freuding also reportedly noted that Germany had supplied Ukraine with artillery howitzers, tanks and Marder infantry fighting vehicles, in addition to launching an attack drone program, according to Pravda.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2024
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howitzer
noun
how·it·zer
ˈhau̇-ət-sər
: a short cannon capable of firing a shell in a high arc
Etymology
from Dutch houwitser "howitzer," derived from a Czechoslovakian word for "catapult"
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