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port-piece chamber
A paterero for loading a port-piece at the breech.
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Chamber
·noun A chamber pot.
II. Chamber ·vi To be lascivious.
III. Chamber ·vt To shut up, as in a chambe...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Chamber
"on the wall," which the Shunammite prepared for the prophet Elisha (2 Kings 4:10), was an upper cha...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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chamber
, or chamber-piece
A charge piece in old ordnance, like a paterero, to put into the breech of a gu...
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Chamber
(Genesis 43:30; 2 Samuel 18:33; Psalms 19:5; Daniel 6:10) The word chamber in these passages has muc...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Piece
·noun A castle; a fortified building.
II. Piece ·noun One of the superior men, distinguished from a...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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piece
A wench. A damned good or bad piece; a girl who is more or less active and skilful in the amorous co...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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piece
A little while. 'Stay a piece.' Provincial in the north of England.--Johnson. The common expression ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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piece
applied to time : Stay a piece ; i. e. a little while. York.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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Air chamber
·- A chamber or cavity filled with air, in an animal or plant.
II. Air chamber ·- A cavity containi...
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Combustion chamber
·add. ·- The clearance space in the cylinder of an internal combustion engine where the charge is co...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Star-chamber
·noun An ancient high court exercising jurisdiction in certain cases, mainly criminal, which sat wit...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Bed-chamber
An apartment in Eastern houses, furnished with a slightly elevated platform at the upper end and som...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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Guest-chamber
The spare room on the upper floor of an Eastern dwelling (Mark 14:14; Luke 22:11). In Luke 2:7 the w...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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Ely's (Bishop of) Chamber
Mention is made of the Bishop of Ely's Chamber in an inquisition as to the extent and dimensions of ...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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temsing-chamber
the sifting-room.
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loading-chamber
The paterero, or inserting piece in breech-loading.
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chamber of a piece of ordnance
The end of the bore modified to receive the charge of powder. In mortars, howitzers, and shell-guns,...
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Chimney-piece
·noun A decorative construction around the opening of a fireplace.
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cod piece
The fore flap of a man's breeches. Do they bite, master? where, in the cod piece or collar?--a jocul...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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cart-piece
An early battering cannon mounted on a peculiar cart.
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cross-piece
The transverse timber of the bitts. Also, a rail of timber extending over the windlass of some merch...
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dagger-piece
, or dagger-wood.
A timber or plank that faces on to the poppets of the bilge-ways, and crosses th...
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dragon piece
A strut or abutment.
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face-piece
A piece of elm tabled on to the knee of the head, in the fore-part, to assist the conversion of the ...
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gunner's piece
In destroying and bursting guns, means a fragment of the breech, which generally flies upward.
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hailshot-piece
A sort of gun supplied of old to our ships, with dice of iron as the missile.
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head-piece
A term for the helmet.
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lengthening-piece
The same as short top-timber (which see).
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main-piece
The strong horizontal beam of the windlass, supported at the ends by iron spindles in the windlass-b...
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port-piece
An ancient piece of ordnance used in our early fleets.
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jaw-piece
See rolling-chock
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shoe-piece
A board placed under the heel of a spar, or other weighty mass, to save the deck. In some cases inte...
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sweep-piece
A block at the bottom of the port-sill for receiving the chock of the gun-carriage, and to aid in tr...
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time-piece
, chronometer
An instrument adapted for measuring mean time. The result of many years of study and e...
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vent-piece
The movable fitment which closes the breech and contains the vent in Armstrong breech-loading guns.
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wall-piece
A very heavy powerful musket, for use in fortified places.
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hand mast-piece
The smaller hand mast-spars.
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piece of eight
The early name for the coin of the value of 8 reals, the well-known Spanish dollar.
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yard-arm piece
An octagonal piece of timber supplied to replace a yard-arm if shot away. It is one-third the length...
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Piece Of Gold
The rendering "pieces of gold," as in (2 Kings 5:5) is very doubtful; and "shekels of gold") as desi...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Piece Of Silver
I. In the Old Testament the word "pieces" is used in the Authorized Version for a word understood in...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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chamber of a mine
The seat or receptacle prepared for the powder-charge, usually at the end of the gallery, and out of...
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main-piece of the rudder
The rudder-stock, or piece which is connected by the rudder-bands to the stern-post.
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muzzle of a piece of ordnance
The forward extremity of the cylinder, and the metal which surrounds it, extending back to the neck,...
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