noun
- Plural of cascabel; a rounded knob or protuberance at the rear end of a cannon barrel.
Usage: military/historical; technical
Examples
- The cascables on the old cannons were ornately decorated.
- Historians examined the cascables to determine the age of the artillery pieces.
- The reinforced cascables helped distribute the recoil force more evenly.
- Each cannon's cascabel was cast as a single unit with the barrel.