Early firearms resembling small smoothbore cannons mounted on a wood stock or shaft, loaded at the muzzle and requiring to be primed and loaded for every shot; used in Europe in the 14th and 15th centuries.
AAT
3000201511
cannon, hand
cannons, hand
hand-cannons
handguns (hand cannons)
13yrs ago
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