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Hausse :: Hausse (n.) A kind of graduated breech sight for a small arm, or a cannon..

Cannonry :: Cannonry (n.) Cannon, collectively; artillery..

Cannon :: Cannon (n.) A great gun; a piece of ordnance or artillery; a firearm for discharging heavy shot with great force.

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

Unsighted :: Unsighted (a.) Not aimed by means of a sight; also, not furnished with a sight, or with a properly adjusted sight; as, to shoot and unsighted rife or cannon..

Tompion :: Tompion (n.) A stopper of a cannon or a musket. See Tampion.

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..

Marron :: Marron (a.) A paper or pasteboard box or shell, wound about with strong twine, filled with an explosive, and ignited with a fuse, -- used to make a noise like a cannon..

Cannoned :: Cannoned (a.) Furnished with cannon.

Petronel :: Petronel (n.) A sort of hand cannon, or portable firearm, used in France in the 15th century..

Scale :: Scale (v. t.) To clean, as the inside of a cannon, by the explosion of a small quantity of powder..

Burrel Shot :: Burrel shot () A mixture of shot, nails, stones, pieces of old iron, etc., fired from a cannon at short range, in an emergency..

Cannonering :: Cannonering (n.) The use of cannon.

Rifling :: Rifling (n.) The act or process of making the grooves in a rifled cannon or gun barrel.

Gun :: Gun (n.) A piece of heavy ordnance; in a restricted sense, a cannon..

Battery :: Battery (v. t.) Any place where cannon or mortars are mounted, for attack or defense..

Trunnion :: Trunnion (n.) A cylindrical projection on each side of a piece, whether gun, mortar, or howitzer, serving to support it on the cheeks of the carriage. See Illust. of Cannon..

Serpentine :: Serpentine (n.) A kind of ancient cannon.

Mitraille :: Mitraille (n.) Shot or bits of iron used sometimes in loading cannon.

Fire :: Fire (v. t.) To cause to explode; as, to fire a torpedo; to disharge; as, to fire a musket or cannon; to fire cannon balls, rockets, etc..

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