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noun
Any of a series of heavy columbiads with a curved bottle shape, designed to fire both shot and shell, and used in the era of the American Civil War.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
Designed by Union artilleryman Thomas Jackson Rodman (1815–1871).
