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Report :: Report (v. t.) Sound; noise; as, the report of a pistol or cannon..

Unspike :: Unspike (v. t.) To remove a spike from, as from the vent of a cannon..

Plant :: Plant (n.) To set firmly; to fix; to set and direct, or point; as, to plant cannon against a fort; to plant a standard in any place; to plant one's feet on solid ground; to plant one's fist in another's face..

Unsighted :: Unsighted (a.) Not aimed by means of a sight; also, not furnished with a sight, or with a properly adjusted sight; as, to shoot and unsighted rife or cannon..

Reecho :: Reecho (v. t.) To echo back; to reverberate again; as, the hills reecho the roar of cannon..

Unbreech :: Unbreech (v. t.) To free the breech of, as a cannon, from its fastenings or coverings..

Velocity :: Velocity (n.) Quickness of motion; swiftness; speed; celerity; rapidity; as, the velocity of wind; the velocity of a planet or comet in its orbit or course; the velocity of a cannon ball; the velocity of light..

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

Rake :: Rake (v. t.) To enfilade; to fire in a direction with the length of; in naval engagements, to cannonade, as a ship, on the stern or head so that the balls range the whole length of the deck..

Nail :: Nail (n.) To spike, as a cannon..

Bore :: Bore (n.) The internal cylindrical cavity of a gun, cannon, pistol, or other firearm, or of a pipe or tube..

Gun :: Gun (n.) A piece of heavy ordnance; in a restricted sense, a cannon..

Whitworth Gun :: Whitworth gun () A form of rifled cannon and small arms invented by Sir Joseph Whitworth, of Manchester, England..

Murderer :: Murderer (n.) A small cannon, formerly used for clearing a ship's decks of boarders; -- called also murdering piece..

Play :: Play (v. t.) To put in action or motion; as, to play cannon upon a fortification; to play a trump..

Cannoned :: Cannoned (a.) Furnished with cannon.

Quoin :: Quoin (n.) To support the breech of a cannon.

Gunstome :: Gunstome (n.) A cannon ball; -- so called because originally made of stone.

Thunder :: Thunder (n.) Any loud noise; as, the thunder of cannon..

Scale :: Scale (v. t.) To clean, as the inside of a cannon, by the explosion of a small quantity of powder..

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