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What is a carronade?

What is a carronade? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (nautical) a very short carriage gun used to fire a heavy shot for a limited range
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Broke sat, dizzied and weak, on a carronade slide, and his head was bound up by William Mindham, who used his own neckerchief.
It's the wrong shape for a carronade, and a long muzzle-loader would probably still have had trunions.
As Chesapeake was heeling, many of their shots struck the water or waterline of Shannon causing little damage, but American carronade fire caused serious damage to Shannons rigging.
The small powder charge of the carronade was only able to project a heavy cannonball over a relatively limited distance.
For artillery he had some 6-pounders and a 32-pounder carronade.
Also, the violent recoil by which a carronade is often thrown off the slide of its carriage.

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