Noun: langrel
Sample Sentences
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The “Virgen del Pilar” was within five hundred yards of the harbour's mouth, when six sakers, charged now with langrel, chain and cross-bar, swept her decks with murderous effect and some damage to her shrouds. [1931, Rafael Sabatini, “The Chronicles Of Captain Blood”, in [aka Captain Blood Returns], published 2008, page 80:]
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Langrel shot was also intended to damage the enemy's rigging. [1987, Brian Lavery, The Arming and Fitting of English Ships of War, 1600-1815, page 137:]
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“And ready the langrel shot,” he yelled to Smithy.
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Isabel turned to Cutter, fear sparking within her. “What is langrel?” “A type of cannon shot meant to damage sails and masts. Never fear, milady. He means only to cripple them.” [2014, MaryLu Tyndall, Legacy of the King's Pirates 3: The Restitution, unnumbered page:]
Nouns inflected like langrel
greyware,
chronotropy,
urgrund,
cytosorting,
homekeeping,
pedobaiting,
winterdress,
JLNS,
rumpology,
hopkinsiaxanthin,
enchylemma,
further education,
hexobendine,
humdrumminess,
unobligingness,
backscroll,
telocinobufagin,
dosulepin,
mensuralism,
crème de framboise, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology