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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Sarandos is the only person in the past 50 years who has come close to challenging Michaels’s crown as comedy’s most powerful man, thanks to the howitzer of cash Netflix has sprayed around the comedy world in recent years.
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Reeves Wiedeman, Vulture, 11 Feb. 2025
The United States will be reinforced by the Heavy Weapons Battlegroup, which brings powerful heavy machine guns onto the field and can call in devastating off-map artillery support from the Black Dragon howitzers.
—Kristan Hawkins, Newsweek, 6 Feb. 2025
Minutes earlier, a bomb-laden quadcopter flown by another team slammed against a howitzer hidden in the tree line.
—C.j. Chivers Robert Fass Krish Seenivasan Steven Szczesniak, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2024
The howitzer itself is essentially a large chunk of metal which is resistant to most forms of attack.
—David Hambling, Forbes, 6 Nov. 2024
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Reeves Wiedeman, Vulture, 11 Feb. 2025
The United States will be reinforced by the Heavy Weapons Battlegroup, which brings powerful heavy machine guns onto the field and can call in devastating off-map artillery support from the Black Dragon howitzers.
—Kristan Hawkins, Newsweek, 6 Feb. 2025
Minutes earlier, a bomb-laden quadcopter flown by another team slammed against a howitzer hidden in the tree line.
—C.j. Chivers Robert Fass Krish Seenivasan Steven Szczesniak, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2024
The howitzer itself is essentially a large chunk of metal which is resistant to most forms of attack.
—David Hambling, Forbes, 6 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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