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compressor
compressor (conp-), ōris, m. [comprimo], one who compresses (in mal. part.), Mythogr. Vatic. 1, 1...
A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.
A mechanism generally adopted afloat for facilitating the working of the large guns recently introduced; the gun-carriage is thus compressed to its slide or platform during the recoil, and set free again by the turn of a handle for running up. It is of various forms; one of the simpler kind used to be always applied to carronade slides.
compressor (conp-), ōris, m. [comprimo], one who compresses (in mal. part.), Mythogr. Vatic. 1, 1...
A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.