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Brown :: Brown (v. t.) To give a bright brown color to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coat of oxide on their surface..

Ton :: Ton (n.) A certain weight or quantity of merchandise, with reference to transportation as freight; as, six hundred weight of ship bread in casks, seven hundred weight in bags, eight hundred weight in bulk; ten bushels of potatoes; eight sacks, or ten barrels, of flour; forty cubic feet of rough, or fifty cubic feet of hewn, timber, etc..

Vessel :: Vessel (n.) A hollow or concave utensil for holding anything; a hollow receptacle of any kind, as a hogshead, a barrel, a firkin, a bottle, a kettle, a cup, a bowl, etc..

Bore :: Bore (v. t.) To form or enlarge by means of a boring instrument or apparatus; as, to bore a steam cylinder or a gun barrel; to bore a hole..

Gauge :: Gauge (v. t.) To measure or to ascertain the contents or the capacity of, as of a pipe, barrel, or keg..

Cooper :: Cooper (v. t.) To do the work of a cooper upon; as, to cooper a cask or barrel..

Retractor :: Retractor (n.) In breech-loading firearms, a device for withdrawing a cartridge shell from the barrel..

Cooper :: Cooper (n.) Work done by a cooper in making or repairing barrels, casks, etc.; the business of a cooper..

Carrier :: Carrier (n.) That which drives or carries; as: (a) A piece which communicates to an object in a lathe the motion of the face plate; a lathe dog. (b) A spool holder or bobbin holder in a braiding machine. (c) A movable piece in magazine guns which transfers the cartridge to a position from which it can be thrust into the barrel.

Cooper :: Cooper (n.) One who makes barrels, hogsheads, casks, etc..

Gunstock :: Gunstock (n.) The stock or wood to which the barrel of a hand gun is fastened.

Broach :: Broach (n.) The pin in a lock which enters the barrel of the key.

Coop :: Coop (n.) A barrel or cask for liquor.

Orgue :: Orgue (n.) A piece of ordnance, consisting of a number of musket barrels arranged so that a match or train may connect with all their touchholes, and a discharge be secured almost or quite simultaneously..

Whelp :: Whelp (n.) One of the longitudinal ribs or ridges on the barrel of a capstan or a windless; -- usually in the plural; as, the whelps of a windlass..

Rifle :: Rifle (v. t.) To grove; to channel; especially, to groove internally with spiral channels; as, to rifle a gun barrel or a cannon..

Tampoon :: Tampoon (n.) The stopper of a barrel; a bung.

Barrel :: Barrel (n.) A solid drum, or a hollow cylinder or case; as, the barrel of a windlass; the barrel of a watch, within which the spring is coiled..

Fusee :: Fusee (n.) The cone or conical wheel of a watch or clock, designed to equalize the power of the mainspring by having the chain from the barrel which contains the spring wind in a spiral groove on the surface of the cone in such a manner that the diameter of the cone at the point where the chain acts may correspond with the degree of tension of the spring..

Tub :: Tub (n.) An open wooden vessel formed with staves, bottom, and hoops; a kind of short cask, half barrel, or firkin, usually with but one head, -- used for various purposes..

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