Culverin

Culverin: The culverin is a medium cannon firing an 18 lb shot. ❋ Unknown (2009)

French had just succeeded in taking across the last piece of artillery, a long "culverin" [1] (cannon), named _Madame de Forli_, [2] which had been re-taken from the Spaniards at Ravenna, was so heavy that it sank the first boat, and the poor soldiers, seeing they were lost, escaped as best they could, but many were killed and others drowned. ❋ Christopher Hare (N/A)

Like many gun names, the word "culverin" has a metaphorical meaning. ❋ Albert Manucy (N/A)

Bases were of the high penetration or 'culverin' type. ❋ Unknown (1888)

For example, if a PC is hiding in a 10×10 wooden shack that is hit by a culverin inflicting 35 points of damage on the structure, he may take 8 points of fragment damage if he fails his save. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Small culverin 2,000 gp 4d10 2000 lbs. 150 ft. Light 2 3/2 ❋ Unknown (2009)

Small Culverin: Also known as the demi-culverin, this weapon fires a 10 lb shot and is suitable for mounting on many ships, including on the top deck. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Taking the Stormwrack method of doing ship damage, where e.g. a caravel has 24 hull sections with hardness 5 and 80 hp each, and six must be destroyed to sink the ship – it requires 3-4 good hits with a culverin to destroy one 10x10x10 section. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The ships are 200 yards apart, which is three range increments out for the culverin (-6 range). ❋ Unknown (2009)

And for "traditional" muzzleloader types we could issue a commemorative culverin with Bilbo Baggins face etched into it. ❋ Unknown (2007)

What was more peculiarly characteristic of the olden age, was the discharge of a culverin at the party from the battlements of the old castle of Rosythe, on the north side of the Ferry, the lord of which happened to have some public or private quarrel with the Lord Lindesay, and took this mode of expressing his resentment. ❋ Unknown (2008)

One was in complete armor; the other wrapped in the plain short cloak of a man of pens and peace: but the talk of both was neither of sieges nor of sallies, catapult, bombard, nor culverin, but simply of ❋ Unknown (2007)

“And one culverin three of their footy little ordnance,” said another. ❋ Unknown (2007)

So he crouched lower and lower beside the culverin, and was rewarded in a minute or two by hearing something gently deposited against the mouth of the embrasure, which, by the noise, should be ❋ Unknown (2007)

We passed the demilune, we passed the culverin, bayoneting the artillerymen at their guns; we advanced across the two tremendous demilunes which flank the counterscarp, and prepared for the final spring upon the citadel. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Our culverin was in amongst us, loaded now to the muzzle, and it was not comfortable to know that it might go off at any time. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)

And so indeed I found him, as well as three other poor fellows, struck by the charge of the culverin, which had passed so close beside me. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)

And here they were not to show themselves; but keep their culverin in the woods, until their cousins of Devon appeared on the opposite parapet of the glen. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)

For it was said that even the Doones had begun to fear me, since I cast their culverin through the door, as above related; and they could not but believe, from my being still untouched (although so large an object) in the thickest of their fire, both of gun and cannon, that I must bear a charmed life, proof against ball and bullet. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)