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Stock :: Stock (n.) The wood to which the barrel, lock, etc., of a musket or like firearm are secured; also, a long, rectangular piece of wood, which is an important part of several forms of gun carriage..

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..

Choke :: Choke (n.) A constriction in the bore of a shotgun, case of a rocket, etc..

License :: License (n.) Authority or liberty given to do or forbear any act; especially, a formal permission from the proper authorities to perform certain acts or to carry on a certain business, which without such permission would be illegal; a grant of permission; as, a license to preach, to practice medicine, to sell gunpowder or intoxicating liquors..

Cylinder :: Cylinder (n.) The bore of a gun; the turning chambered breech of a revolver.

Shogunate :: Shogunate (n.) The office or dignity of a Shogun.

Oarlock :: Oarlock (n.) The notch, fork, or other device on the gunwale of a boat, in which the oar rests in rowing. See Rowlock..

Powderflask :: Powderflask (n.) A flask in which gunpowder is carried, having a charging tube at the end..

Furniture :: Furniture (v. t.) The mountings of a gun.

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

Charge :: Charge (v. t.) That quantity, as of ammunition, electricity, ore, fuel, etc., which any apparatus, as a gun, battery, furnace, machine, etc., is intended to receive and fitted to hold, or which is actually in it at one time.

Relation :: Relation (n.) The act of a relator at whose instance a suit is begun.

Hurter :: Hurter (v. t.) A butting piece; a strengthening piece, esp.: (Mil.) A piece of wood at the lower end of a platform, designed to prevent the wheels of gun carriages from injuring the parapet..

Train :: Train (v.) The after part of a gun carriage; the trail.

Aim :: Aim (v. i.) The pointing of a weapon, as a gun, a dart, or an arrow, in the line of direction with the object intended to be struck; the line of fire; the direction of anything, as a spear, a blow, a discourse, a remark, towards a particular point or object, with a view to strike or affect it..

Abscission :: Abscission (n.) A figure of speech employed when a speaker having begun to say a thing stops abruptly: thus, He is a man of so much honor and candor, and of such generosity -- but I need say no more..

Wardroom :: Wardroom (n.) A room occupied as a messroom by the commissioned officers of a war vessel. See Gunroom.

Shooter :: Shooter (n.) One who shoots, as an archer or a gunner..

Chevrette :: Chevrette (n.) A machine for raising guns or mortar into their carriages.

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

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