high-angle gun

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   a cannon that can be fired at a high elevation for relatively short ranges

   Broadercannon

   Narrowermortar

Questions about high-angle gun

What does high-angle gun mean?

high-angle gun means "a cannon that can be fired at a high elevation for relatively short ranges".

Is high-angle gun a common word?

high-angle gun is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.