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Lead :: Lead (v. t.) To cover, fill, or affect with lead; as, continuous firing leads the grooves of a rifle..

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

Cock :: Cock (v. t.) To draw the hammer of (a firearm) fully back and set it for firing.

Firing :: Firing (n.) The process of partly vitrifying pottery by exposing it to intense heat in a kiln.

Monk :: Monk (n.) A piece of tinder made of agaric, used in firing the powder hose or train of a mine..

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

Matross :: Matross (n.) Formerly, in the British service, a gunner or a gunner's mate; one of the soldiers in a train of artillery, who assisted the gunners in loading, firing, and sponging the guns..

Foul :: Foul (v. t.) To incrust (the bore of a gun) with burnt powder in the process of firing.

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

Fire :: Fire (n.) The discharge of firearms; firing; as, the troops were exposed to a heavy fire..

Foul :: Foul (superl.) Covered with, or containing, extraneous matter which is injurious, noxious, offensive, or obstructive; filthy; dirty; not clean; polluted; nasty; defiled; as, a foul cloth; foul hands; a foul chimney; foul air; a ship's bottom is foul when overgrown with barnacles; a gun becomes foul from repeated firing; a well is foul with polluted water..

Discharge :: Discharge (v. t.) Firing off; explosive removal of a charge; explosion; letting off; as, a discharge of arrows, of artillery..

Arson :: Arson (n.) The malicious burning of a dwelling house or outhouse of another man, which by the common law is felony; the malicious and voluntary firing of a building or ship..

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