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Gutter :: Gutter (n.) Any narrow channel or groove; as, a gutter formed by erosion in the vent of a gun from repeated firing..

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

Breastheight :: Breastheight (n.) The interior slope of a fortification, against which the garrison lean in firing..

Plunger :: Plunger (n.) The firing pin of a breechloader.

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

Touch-paper :: Touch-paper (n.) Paper steeped in saltpeter, which burns slowly, and is used as a match for firing gunpowder, and the like..

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

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

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..

Mouse :: Mouse (n.) A match used in firing guns or blasting.

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

Gunshot :: Gunshot (n.) Act of firing a gun; a shot.

Silence :: Silence (v. t.) To cause to cease firing, as by a vigorous cannonade; as, to silence the batteries of an enemy..

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

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

Ricochet :: Ricochet (v. t.) To operate upon by ricochet firing. See Ricochet, n..

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

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

Smift :: Smift (n.) A match for firing a charge of powder, as in blasting; a fuse..

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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