Noun: howitzer
| Singular | howitzer |
| Plural | howitzers |
Sample Sentences
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Belgium took a little while to catch Scotland with the first of the howitzer blows, but when the first one landed there was a certainty of more. Many more. [2018 September 7, Tom English, “Scotland 0-4 Belgium”, in BBC Sport:]
Nouns inflected like howitzer
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Dutch houwitser, from German Haubitze, from Middle High German haufniz, from Czech houfnice, which was derived from houf (“flock, crowd”) + -nice. The Czech noun houf comes from Middle High German hufe (“heap”), from Old High German hūfo. See: Dutch Nouns '
houwitser', German Nouns '
Haubitze', Czech Nouns '
houfnice'.