FIELDPIECE

Etymology

Noun

fieldpiece (plural fieldpieces)

A mobile artillery piece, i.e. gun or howitzer, for use in the field.

Synonyms

• field gun

Source: Wiktionary


Field"piece`, n.

Definition: A cannon mounted on wheels, for the use of a marching army; a piece of field artillery; -- called also field gun.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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SCHNORR

(verb) obtain or seek to obtain by cadging or wheedling; “he is always shnorring cigarettes from his friends”


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The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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