Composed of two wide balks of elm on which the carronade carriage slides. As the slide is bolted to the ship's side, and is a radius from that bolt or pivot, carronades were once the only guns which could be truly concentrated on a given object.
·noun A kind of short cannon, formerly in use, designed to throw a large projectile with small veloc...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
A short gun, capable of carrying a large ball, and useful in close engagements at sea. It takes its ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·noun A slide valve. II. Slide ·vt To pass inadvertently. III. Slide ·noun That which operates by ...
To let go; as, 'that fish you have hooked is not fit to eat; let him slide.' ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
The adaptations used in a marine-engine to change the admission of the steam into, and its eduction ...
A casing on one side of the cylinder of an engine, which covers the nozzles or steam-ports, and conf...
A rod connecting the slide-valves of an engine, to both of which it is joined; it passes through the...