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

Barrel :: Barrel (n.) A round vessel or cask, of greater length than breadth, and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with hoops, and having flat ends or heads..

Foots :: Foots (n. pl.) The settlings of oil, molasses, etc., at the bottom of a barrel or hogshead..

Keg :: Keg (n.) A small cask or barrel.

Wiper :: Wiper (n.) A rod, or an attachment for a rod, for holding a rag with which to wipe out the bore of the barrel..

Rifle :: Rifle (n.) A gun, the inside of whose barrel is grooved with spiral channels, thus giving the ball a rotary motion and insuring greater accuracy of fire. As a military firearm it has superseded the musket..

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..

Heading :: Heading (n.) Material for the heads of casks, barrels, etc..

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..

Sling :: Sling (v. t.) A loop of rope, or a rope or chain with hooks, for suspending a barrel, bale, or other heavy object, in hoisting or lowering..

Lump :: Lump (n.) A projection beneath the breech end of a gun barrel.

Bore :: Bore (n.) The size of a hole; the interior diameter of a tube or gun barrel; the caliber.

Charge :: Charge (v. t.) To fix or demand as a price; as, he charges two dollars a barrel for apples..

Draught :: Draught (a.) Drawn directly from the barrel, or other receptacle, in distinction from bottled; on draught; -- said of ale, cider, and the like..

Barrelling :: Barrelling () of Barre.

Rib :: Rib (n.) A longitudinal strip of metal uniting the barrels of a double-barreled gun.

Abutment :: Abutment (n.) In breech-loading firearms, the block behind the barrel which receives the pressure due to recoil..

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

Face :: Face (v. t.) To cover with better, or better appearing, material than the mass consists of, for purpose of deception, as the surface of a box of tea, a barrel of sugar, etc..

Port :: Port (v. t.) To throw, as a musket, diagonally across the body, with the lock in front, the right hand grasping the small of the stock, and the barrel sloping upward and crossing the point of the left shoulder; as, to port arms..

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