Such guns as are removed to the chase-ports ahead or astern, if not pivot-guns.
·v That which is pursued or hunted. II. Chase ·vt To cut, so as to make a screw thread. III. Chase...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
The vessel pursued by some other, that pursuing being the chaser. This word is also applied to a r...
The Sailor's Word-Book
[Hunting] ...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
Properly guns whose weight and power fit them for demolishing by direct force the works of the enemy...
These are more powerful than those intended for the field; and formerly nearly coincided with naval ...
Fired at intervals of a minute each during the progress of important funerals. ...
Those cast expressly for sea-service. ...
·noun The liberty or franchise of having a chase; free chase. ...
To pursue a ship, which is also called giving chase. ♦ A stern chase is when the chaser follows th...
Cannon situated in the fore part of the ship to fire upon any object ahead of her. Chasing ahead, or...
The gun-ports at the bows and through the stern of a war-ship. ...
Where the sight is usually placed. ...
The cannon which are placed in the after-part of a ship, pointing astern. ...
A nautical phrase implying ordnance too heavy for a ship's scantling, or a fort over-gunned. ...
Recently invented guns of great strength, specially adapted to meet the requirements of rifled artil...
To extract the charge of wad, shot, and cartridge from the guns. ...
A kind of portable priming, for insertion into the vent, of various patterns. (See friction-tube, ...
A tedious uncertain pursuit, like the following a flock of wild geese, who are remarkably shy. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
to make sail in pursuit of a stranger. ...
That part of the conical external surface extending from the moulding in front of the trunnions to t...
To mark well the position of the vessel chased by bearing, so that by standing away from her on one ...
The general armament of a ship. Also, a slang term for the blowing and raining of heavy weather. ...
Heavy gales; a hurricane. ...
The old practice of morning and evening evolutions in a line-of-battle ship, wind and weather permit...