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A lance having a small axe fixed at the foot of its blade, or lance-head on one side and a spike projecting on the other side. —' French foot-soldiers of the free archers, armed Guiaarmiers. with the guisarme. term 'applied in its most general application to fire-arms of any description, but in the more restricted and technical sense to a piece of ordnance fired from a platform or wheeled mount. Guns, according to their sizes and uses, are cla ed as mountain, light or heavy field, siege and seacoast. A gun … compared with a howitzer has a relatively long barrel, flat trajectory and high velocity. reL — The barrel or tube of a gun, which serves to give direction and rotation to the projectile ejected by the exploding charge.