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Six-shooter :: Six-shooter (n.) A pistol or other firearm which can be fired six times without reloading especially, a six-chambered revolver..

Pass-parole :: Pass-parole (n.) An order passed from front to rear by word of mouth.

Arere :: Arere (v. t. & i.) See Arear.

Reardoss :: Reardoss (n.) A reredos.

Background :: Background (n.) Ground in the rear or behind, or in the distance, as opposed to the foreground, or the ground in front..

Countermarch :: Countermarch (n.) An evolution by which a body of troops change front or reverse the direction of march while retaining the same men in the front rank; also, a movement by which the rear rank becomes the front one, either with or without changing the right to the left..

Vent :: Vent (n.) The opening at the breech of a firearm, through which fire is communicated to the powder of the charge; touchhole..

Breechblock :: Breechblock (n.) The movable piece which closes the breech of a breech-loading firearm, and resists the backward force of the discharge. It is withdrawn for the insertion of a cartridge, and closed again before the gun is fired..

Drear :: Drear (a.) Dismal; gloomy with solitude.

Cubit :: Cubit (n.) The forearm; the ulna, a bone of the arm extending from elbow to wrist..

Gable :: Gable (n.) The end wall of a building, as distinguished from the front or rear side..

Arquebuse :: Arquebuse (n.) A sort of hand gun or firearm a contrivance answering to a trigger, by which the burning match was applied. The musket was a later invention..

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

Worm :: Worm (n.) A spiral instrument or screw, often like a double corkscrew, used for drawing balls from firearms..

Dreary :: Dreary (superl.) Sorrowful; distressful.

Hand :: Hand (n.) That part of the fore limb below the forearm or wrist in man and monkeys, and the corresponding part in many other animals; manus; paw. See Manus..

Estrapade :: Estrapade (n.) The action of a horse, when, to get rid of his rider, he rears, plunges, and kicks furiously..

Seedling :: Seedling (n.) A plant reared from the seed, as distinguished from one propagated by layers, buds, or the like..

Arear :: Arear (adv.) Backward; in or to the rear; behindhand.

Syne :: Syndyasmian (a.) Pertaining to the state of pairing together sexually; -- said of animals during periods of procreation and while rearing their offspring.

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