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Trig :: Trig (n.) A stone, block of wood, or anything else, placed under a wheel or barrel to prevent motion; a scotch; a skid..

Port :: Port (v. t.) To throw, as a musket, diagonally across the body, with the lock in front, the right hand grasping the small of the stock, and the barrel sloping upward and crossing the point of the left shoulder; as, to port arms..

Gauge :: Gauge (v. t.) To measure or to ascertain the contents or the capacity of, as of a pipe, barrel, or keg..

Skid :: Skid (n.) One of a pair of horizontal rails or timbers for supporting anything, as a boat, a barrel, etc..

Barrel :: Barrel (n.) A metallic tube, as of a gun, from which a projectile is discharged..

Tang :: Tang (n.) The projecting part of the breech of a musket barrel, by which the barrel is secured to the stock..

Coop :: Coop (n.) A barrel or cask for liquor.

Hoop :: Hoop (n.) A quart pot; -- so called because originally bound with hoops, like a barrel. Also, a portion of the contents measured by the distance between the hoops..

Charge :: Charge (v. t.) To fix or demand as a price; as, he charges two dollars a barrel for apples..

Gatling Gun :: Gatling gun () An American machine gun, consisting of a cluster of barrels which, being revolved by a crank, are automatically loaded and fired..

Face :: Face (v. t.) To cover with better, or better appearing, material than the mass consists of, for purpose of deception, as the surface of a box of tea, a barrel of sugar, etc..

Barrel :: Barrel (n.) A solid drum, or a hollow cylinder or case; as, the barrel of a windlass; the barrel of a watch, within which the spring is coiled..

Twist :: Twist (n.) A material for gun barrels, consisting of iron and steel twisted and welded together; as, Damascus twist..

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

Barrelled :: Barrelled () of Barre.

Thrall :: Thrall (n.) A shelf; a stand for barrels, etc..

Rundlet :: Rundlet (n.) A small barrel of no certain dimensions. It may contain from 3 to 20 gallons, but it usually holds about 14/ gallons..

Penstock :: Penstock (n.) The barrel of a wooden pump.

Double-barreled :: Double-barreled (a.) Alt. of -barrelle.

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

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