The "sakers" are said to have carried a four-pound ball, the "minions" a three-pound ball, and the "bases" a ball of a pound weight. ❋ Azel Ames (1876)
Of these, two (2) were "sakers," -- guns ten feet long of 3 to 4 inches bore, weighing from fifteen to eighteen hundred pounds each; two (2) were "minions" (or "falcons"), -- guns of 3 1/2 inch bore, weighing twelve hundred pounds (1200 lbs.) each; and two (2) were ❋ Azel Ames (1876)
a dozen bell-mouthed brass blunderbusses, and a few old-fashioned wall-pieces, such as sakers and culverins taken from the manor-houses of the county. ❋ Arthur Conan Doyle (1894)
We floated in a circle like a pair of lonely sakers, measuring the other in a game above the Gandomak plains, each searching for prey. ❋ Michael Franzak (2010)
He walked about it awhile but, finding its only inhabitants sakers which nested in the sand, he again anointed his feet and trudged over the Fifth Sea, walking night and day till he came to a little island, whose soil and hills were like crystal. ❋ Unknown (2006)
He knew I would like this one because it depicts petroglyphs at Tamgaly in the Kazakh steppes, where we have both seen sakers. ❋ Unknown (2006)
We saw both at Tamgaly, as well as sakers, harriers, red- footed falcons... ❋ Unknown (2006)
Gorbatov is working on illustrating a monograph on the sakers for a German scientist. ❋ Unknown (2006)
The cannons – four sakers (which fire a six-pound ball) already in place and in use and two demi-culverins (which fire 12-pound balls) now under construction – are fully functional duplicates of those ordered by Lord Ashley Cooper from faraway London to help defend the fledgling New World colony. ❋ Thatsnews (2006)
For artillery, the top of the Tower was mounted with some antiquated wall-pieces, and small cannons, which bore the old-fashioned names of culverins, sakers, demi-sakers, falcons, and falconets. ❋ Unknown (2004)
There were mottled sakers, the favoured falcons of the Syrian nobility, famed for their fierceness and speed; there was the King's superb Scandinavian gyrfalcon, hooded in crimson silk, with a plume of dyed blue feathers and jesses stitched with silver bells. ❋ Chadwick, Elizabeth (2004)
The sakers banged out for the last time, the trumpets on the hillside shrilled and were drowned by the rising tide of Royalist cheers. ❋ Price, Anthony (1976)
Twice already they had repelled enemy attacks at push of pike; once — ill-advisedly — they had even tried to follow their retreating attackers up the ridge; galled by the fire of the two sakers up the hillside when their own cannon had fallen silent they had closed up and stood firm, so that the original extent of their line was now marked by their dead to the left and right of them. ❋ Price, Anthony (1976)
The magazines of the English fleet were all but empty, its "cannon, demi-cannon, sakers, and falconets" doomed to useless silence, food and water short in supply, and much sickness among the tired crews, who were complaining that they were badly fed and that the beer was undrinkable. ❋ John Richard Hale (N/A)
Besides harquebuses for the soldiers, there were many kinds of cannon with strange names, such as culverins, falconets, sakers, serpentines, and rabinets. ❋ Elbert Jay Benton (N/A)
This place of strength was furnished with six great pieces, demiculverins and sakers, which shot directly in front upon us as we approached. ❋ Walter Bigges (N/A)
A varied assortment of 17th-century cannon balls have also been found, appropriate sizes for such ordnance as demiculverines, sakers, minions, and falcons. ❋ J. Paul Hudson (N/A)
