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The Sailor's Word-Book

A missive weapon of offence, and whether ancient or modern, in the rudest form among savages or refined by art, is always a slender stick, armed at one end, and occasionally feathered at the other. The natives of Tropical Africa feather the metal barb.


In fortification, a work placed at the salient angles of the glacis, communicating with the covert way.

♦ Broad arrow. The royal mark for stores of every kind. (See broad arrow.)

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