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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..

Mouth :: Mouth (n.) The opening of a piece of ordnance, through which it is discharged..

Ordnance :: Ordnance (n.) Heavy weapons of warfare; cannon, or great guns, mortars, and howitzers; artillery; sometimes, a general term for all weapons and appliances used in war..

Demicannon :: Demicannon (n.) A kind of ordnance, carrying a ball weighing from thirty to thirty-six pounds..

Prove :: Prove (v. t.) To try or to ascertain by an experiment, or by a test or standard; to test; as, to prove the strength of gunpowder or of ordnance; to prove the contents of a vessel by a standard measure..

Jingal :: "Jingal (n.) A small portable piece of ordnance, mounted on a swivel..

Lance :: Lance (n.) An instrument which conveys the charge of a piece of ordnance and forces it home.

Demiculverin :: Demiculverin (n.) A kind of ordnance, carrying a ball weighing from nine to thirteen pounds..

Tampion :: Tampion (n.) A wooden stopper, or plug, as for a cannon or other piece of ordnance, when not in use..

Aspic :: Aspic (n.) A piece of ordnance carrying a 12 pound shot.

Chamber :: Chamber (n.) That part of the bore of a piece of ordnance which holds the charge, esp. when of different diameter from the rest of the bore; -- formerly, in guns, made smaller than the bore, but now larger, esp. in breech-loading guns..

Etat Major :: Etat Major () The staff of an army, including all officers above the rank of colonel, also, all adjutants, inspectors, quartermasters, commissaries, engineers, ordnance officers, paymasters, physicians, signal officers, judge advocates; also, the noncommissioned assistants of the above officers..

Dolphin :: Dolphin (n.) In old ordnance, one of the handles above the trunnions by which the gun was lifted..

Bombard :: Bombard (n.) A piece of heavy ordnance formerly used for throwing stones and other ponderous missiles. It was the earliest kind of cannon.

Tertiate :: Tertiate (v. t.) To examine, as the thickness of the metal at the muzzle of a gun; or, in general, to examine the thickness of, as ordnance, in order to ascertain its strength..

Basilisk :: Basilisk (n.) A large piece of ordnance, so called from its supposed resemblance to the serpent of that name, or from its size..

Gun :: Gun (n.) A weapon which throws or propels a missile to a distance; any firearm or instrument for throwing projectiles by the explosion of gunpowder, consisting of a tube or barrel closed at one end, in which the projectile is placed, with an explosive charge behind, which is ignited by various means. Muskets, rifles, carbines, and fowling pieces are smaller guns, for hand use, and are called small arms. Larger guns are called cannon, ordnance, fieldpieces, carronades, howitzers, etc. See these t

Gomer :: Gomer (n.) A conical chamber at the breech of the bore in heavy ordnance, especially in mortars; -- named after the inventor..

Dispart :: Dispart (n.) A piece of metal placed on the muzzle, or near the trunnions, on the top of a piece of ordnance, to make the line of sight parallel to the axis of the bore; -- called also dispart sight, and muzzle sight..

Maniglion :: Maniglion (n.) Either one of two handles on the back of a piece of ordnance.

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