five-nine

noun

noun

Historical A 5.9-inch artillery shell of the kind used by Germany in World War I.

All went lame; all blind; / Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots / Of tired, outstripped Five-Nines that dropped behind.1917, Wilfred Owen, Dulce Et Decorum Est:

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