Definitions for cascabel

cascabel cas·ca·bel

Spelling: [kas-kuh-bel]
IPA: /ˈkæs kəˌbɛl/

Cascabel is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 209 anagrams from letters in cascabel (aabccels).

Definitions for cascabel

noun

  1. a knoblike projection at the rear of the breech of a muzzleloading cannon.

Origin of cascabel

1630-40; Spanish: little round bell, rattle Old Provençal cascavel, akin to Medieval Latin *cascabellus, equivalent to Vulgar Latin *cascab(us) (variant of Latin caccabus pot) + Latin -ellus

Examples for cascabel

While uttering these words she had drawn from her girdle a small stiletto, with a blade sharp as the tongue of a cascabel.

A moulding formerly round a cannon, at a little distance from its breech, the cascabel, and another near the muzzle.

cascabel, kas′ka-bel, n. the whole rear part behind the base-ring of a cannon.

The recoil was taken up by a heavy hempen hawser fastened to the bulwarks and passed through the cascabel of the gun.

The body of a cascabel, or rattlesnake; appeared in the gaping orifice of the bag.

On the end of the upper jaw, the cascabel block and head of the pin, the foundry number in quarter-inch figures.

On the upper jaw of the cascabel, the preponderance in pounds to be stamped lightly with half-inch figures.

When the breech of the gun is above the port-sill, hook the garnet and the thwart-ship-tackle to the cascabel, and bowse on both.

Another was placed under the cascabel, which was supported by General and Dummy, with Rosebud at the jaws.

This chain had in some strange way become twisted about the screw of the cascabel.

Word Value for cascabel
Scrable

14

Words with friends

18

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