gunwheels

Updated: May 15, 2025

I jumped down, went back a short distance, and found my old drab fur, of Lexington make, flat in the road, having been trampled over by several teams and gunwheels. After a halt of a few hours we were again on the move, and soon found ourselves in Fairfax County. About noon we passed by "Chantilly," the home of my messmate, Wash. Stuart, whom we had left desperately wounded at Winchester.

Edward Alexander Moore - The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson : In Which is Told the Part Taken by the Rockbridge Artillery in the Army of Northern Virginia

At two in the morning of Monday, February 12th, the start was made, and the long sinuous line of night-riders moved off over the shadowy veld, the beat of twenty thousand hoofs, the clank of steel, and the rumble of gunwheels and tumbrils swelling into a deep low roar like the surge upon the shingle. Two rivers, the Riet and the Modder, intervened between French and Kimberley.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Great Boer War