garrison guns

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• Garrison

  ·noun A body of troops stationed in a fort or fortified town. II. Garrison ·noun A fortified place,...

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• Garrison

  1) Heb. matstsab, a station; a place where one stands (1 Sam. 14:12); a military or fortified post (...

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• garrison

  A military force guarding a town or fortress; a term for the place itself; also for the state of gua...

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• Garrison

  The Hebrew words so rendered in the Authorized Version are derivatives from the root natsab, to "pla...

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• garrison orders

  Those given out by the commandant of a garrison. ...

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• battering guns

  Properly guns whose weight and power fit them for demolishing by direct force the works of the enemy...

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• chase-guns

  Such guns as are removed to the chase-ports ahead or astern, if not pivot-guns. ...

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• minute-guns

  Fired at intervals of a minute each during the progress of important funerals. ...

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• ship-guns

  Those cast expressly for sea-service. ...

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• Garrison, William Lloyd

  (1805-1879) Orator, was b. at Newburyport, Mass. Though chiefly known for his eloquent advocacy of ...

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• bed-of-guns

  A nautical phrase implying ordnance too heavy for a ship's scantling, or a fort over-gunned. ...

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• built-up guns

  Recently invented guns of great strength, specially adapted to meet the requirements of rifled artil...

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• draw the guns

  To extract the charge of wad, shot, and cartridge from the guns. ...

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• tubes, for guns

  A kind of portable priming, for insertion into the vent, of various patterns. (See friction-tube, ...

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• great guns and small-arms

  The general armament of a ship. Also, a slang term for the blowing and raining of heavy weather. ...

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• blowing great guns and small arms

  Heavy gales; a hurricane. ...

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• running out, and running in, the lower deck guns

  The old practice of morning and evening evolutions in a line-of-battle ship, wind and weather permit...

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