To let fly the small cannon.
“Iʹll flee the falconʹ (so the small cannon was called) ‘Iʹll flee the falcon … my certie, sheʹll ruffle their feathers for themʹ” [i.e. the insurgents].—Sir W. Scott: Old Mortality, chap. xxv.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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