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Quadrate :: Quadrate (v. t.) To adjust (a gun) on its carriage; also, to train (a gun) for horizontal firing..

Salvo :: Salvo (n.) A salute paid by a simultaneous, or nearly simultaneous, firing of a number of cannon..

Seven-shooter :: Seven-shooter (n.) A firearm, esp. a pistol, with seven barrels or chambers for cartridges, or one capable of firing seven shots without reloading..

Heel :: Heel (n.) In a small arm, the corner of the but which is upwards in the firing position..

Foul :: Foul (v. t.) To incrust (the bore of a gun) with burnt powder in the process of firing.

Murdress :: Murdress (n.) A battlement in ancient fortifications with interstices for firing through.

Fuel :: Fuel (v. t.) To store or furnish with fuel or firing.

Monk :: Monk (n.) A piece of tinder made of agaric, used in firing the powder hose or train of a mine..

Shotgun :: Shotgun (n.) A light, smooth-bored gun, often double-barreled, especially designed for firing small shot at short range, and killing small game..

Hovel :: Hovel (n.) A large conical brick structure around which the firing kilns are grouped.

Enfilade :: Enfilade (n.) A firing in the direction of the length of a trench, or a line of parapet or troops, etc.; a raking fire..

Foul :: Foul (superl.) Covered with, or containing, extraneous matter which is injurious, noxious, offensive, or obstructive; filthy; dirty; not clean; polluted; nasty; defiled; as, a foul cloth; foul hands; a foul chimney; foul air; a ship's bottom is foul when overgrown with barnacles; a gun becomes foul from repeated firing; a well is foul with polluted water..

Lunt :: Lunt (n.) The match cord formerly used in firing cannon.

Matchlock :: Matchlock (n.) An old form of gunlock containing a match for firing the priming; hence, a musket fired by means of a match..

Firing :: Firing (n.) The mode of introducing fuel into the furnace and working it.

Firing :: Firing (n.) The act of disharging firearms.

Linstock :: Linstock (n.) A pointed forked staff, shod with iron at the foot, to hold a lighted match for firing cannon..

Firing :: Firing (n.) Fuel; firewood or coal.

Hammer :: Hammer (n.) That part of a gunlock which strikes the percussion cap, or firing pin; the cock; formerly, however, a piece of steel covering the pan of a flintlock musket and struck by the flint of the cock to ignite the priming..

Discharge :: Discharge (v. t.) Firing off; explosive removal of a charge; explosion; letting off; as, a discharge of arrows, of artillery..

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