If you have either guineas or interest you can climb over the heads of old sea-officers, though you may not know the poop from the galley, or a carronade from a long nine.
And here you are, Mary, and you also, Roddy, and good luck to the carronade which has sent me into so snug a harbour without fear of sailing orders.
Twas a carronade that came adrift in the Bay when it was blowing a top-gallant breeze with a beam sea.
But for the gleaming carronade trained on the main hatch, and the small group of gunners clustered about it, the scene was peaceable enough, resembling the deck of some merchant ship.
Only by confining them below, with hatches battened down, and a carronade trained upon them, would we be safe.
There is a brass carronade trained on the hatch to sweep you to kingdom come.
There was a brass carronade at the stern in plain view, and so mounted as to be swung inboard in case of necessity.
Every movement of the loose carronade threatened the ship's destruction.
Everybody was silent, letting the carronade continue its horrible din.
At the moment when the gunner, accepting this frightful hand-to-hand conflict, challenged the cannon, some chance rocking of the sea caused the carronade to remain for an instant motionless and as if stupefied.
The carronade was fired with a tremendous report, but no visible effect.
A heavy sea struck the port, the carronade insecurely fastened, had recoiled and broken its chain, and begun its terrible course over the deck.
Of killed there were fifteen; and it was conjectured that as many more had been drowned in the boat when she was sunk by the shot from the carronade of the launch.
Captain Broke, who had been assisted to a carronade slide, directed Lieutenant Faulkner to summon the Americans in the hold to give in if they expected quarter.
The British marines were, in the meantime, keeping up so spirited a fire on the forecastle of the Didon that they prevented the Frenchmen from discharging the carronade placed on it.
Captain Keppel was at supper on board the Jolly Bachelor, when the sound of the pinnace's twelve-pounder carronade broke through the stillness of the night.
During this time Captain Keppel and his coxswain kept up a fire on the embrasures, to prevent the enemy reloading before the pinnace could bring her twelve-pounder carronade to bear.
Next instant they recovered, and another stroke would have brought them almost alongside, when Captain Ellice pointed the little carronade and fired.
Mr. Thompson, let the gunner double-shot the four big guns, and load the little carronade with musket-balls to the muzzle.
The carronade at which I was stationed was known as "Gun No.
The dentrifice operated delightfully, and made the threading of my carronade screw shine and grin again, like a set of false teeth in an eager heiress-hunter's mouth.
Point- blank, the range of a carronadedoes not exceed one hundred and fifty yards, much less than the range of a long-gun.
Footnote-1] For the benefit of a Quaker reader here and there, a word or two in explanation of a carronade may not be amiss.
A carronade throwing a thirty-two-pound shot weighs considerably less than a long-gun only throwing a twenty-four-pound shot.
The carronade is a gun comparatively short and light for its calibre.
I disliked the looks of her from the first, and, after piping all hands to quarters, had the brass carronade on the fore-deck crammed with grape to the muzzle.
The carronadehad a powder chamber like many of the earliest guns known, and was similar to a mortar.
The same remark applies to French and American ships when the use of the carronade extended from the British to other navies.
Saying this, he bound his foot up in his neck-handkerchief and served out double allowance until his carronadewas dismounted by the carriage of it being shattered to pieces.
We put on board her a twelve-pounder carronade and mounted four half-pound swivels on her gunwales.
The boys all came tumbling up the ladders, and the first lieutenant desired each of them to take a seat upon the carronade slides.
And having laid it carefully on the carronade slide, fumbled in his pocket for some time, and eventually produced a dirty sheet of paper, on which, written in execrable English, was a petition to assist the wants of the convent.
The captain stood on the carronade slide, from which he had addressed the men.
Where the principal force of a squadron, as in Perry's case, consists in two vessels armed almost entirely with carronades, the importance of getting within carronade range is apparent.
One more fire from a cursed carronade would have given a Flemish account of the whole party; for, once get a little under, and you suffer like game in a batteau.
This leading boat was the Proserpine's launch, which carried a similar carronade on its grating forward, and not half a minute was suffered to pass before the fire was returned.
He threw a round-shot from his carronade into the felucca, aimed by himself, and directed with care.
All were silent, leaving the carronadeto its horrible uproar.
Each bound of the liberated carronade seemed to threaten the destruction of the ship.
The carronade stumbled, and the gunner, availing himself of the perilous opportunity, thrust his iron bar between the spokes of the back wheels.
As a sort of compromise, indeed, the carronade was dismounted, and placed beside the hall-door.
She looked daggers at me, and rising from the carronade slide, hobbled to the ladder, saying, that `the insult was another proof of how little I deserved any kindness from her.
Captain Drawlock very civilly dragged the lady to the weather-side of the quarter-deck, where, after in vain attempting to walk, she sat down on one of the carronade slides.
The foremast was nearly cut in half by the carronade shot of her antagonist; her main-yard was badly wounded, and her wheel knocked to atoms, which obliged them to steer on the lower deck.
I asked the third lieutenant to allow me to take on board the young officer, who still remained lifeless on the carronade slide, and, as it was proper for me to bring back with me the commanding officer, he consented.
Shortly afterwards he staggered to a carronade slide, and dropped down on it, and very soon was in a state of insensibility.
Bugle-calls split the air; drums rolled furiously; a carronade went off with a shattering roar; there was a rush of feet and tumult of voices.
Then he put his shoulder to a carronade and shoved.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "carronade" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
