A relatively short cannon that delivers shells at a medium muzzle velocity, usually by a high trajectory.(noun)
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Use "howitzer" in a sentence
"Using a Ra-Be neutron source surrounded by a paraffin howitzer, a modest beam of thermalized neutrons was available for experimentation and, during my period at the Heights, this was directed towards a search for the expected paramagnetic scattering from certain materials."
"A shot from the howitzer was to be the signal for the squadrons to charge."
"The brigadier general, a polite little man who has lectured at the staff college for twenty years and who knows the last word in the science of warfare, especially of artillery, called the howitzer battery by telephone."