artillery cart
artillery cart
[är′til·ə·rē ′kärt] (ordnance)
A trailer that carries equipment used by artillery units for fire control, communications, and mapping; it is attached to a field gun for traveling.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
References in periodicals archive
Cugnot's
artillery cart (fardier in French) used a pair of cylinders mounted side by side at the front of the carriage to engage a pair of ratchet wheels on either side of a single drive wheel.
Comrade Kim Jong-Il came in on an
artillery cart wrapped in his country's flag.
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