long tom
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.79 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Any of various early cannon and field guns.
noun
A high-powered lens for long-distance filming or photography.
Example Sentences
- "What he would do afterwards — whether he would try to crawl right across the island from North Inlet to the camp among the swamps or whether he would fire Long Tom, trusting that his own comrades might come first to help him — was, of course, more than I could say."
- "Digging around second-hand shops you may come across an old newspaper or picture agency 'Long Tom' lens."
- "One of the last 'Long Toms' produced for Fleet Street, it was used by a Daily Mirror photographer on Coronation Day, 2 June 1953."