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Gun
·noun Violent blasts of wind.
II. Gun ·- of <<Gin>>.
III. Gun ·noun A piece of heavy ordnance; in ...
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gun
He is in the gun; he is drunk: perhaps from an allusion to a vessel called a gun, used for ale in th...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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gun
a flaggon for ale. N.
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gun
The usual service name for a cannon (which see); it was originally called great gun, to distinguish ...
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Fire
·vt To drive by fire.
II. Fire ·vt To <<Cauterize>>.
III. Fire ·vi To be irritated or inflamed wit...
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Fire
1) For sacred purposes. The sacrifices were consumed by fire (Gen. 8:20). The ever-burning fire on t...
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to fire
To fling with the hand, as a stone or other missile.
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fire!
The order to put the match to the priming, or pull the trigger of a cannon or other fire-arm so as t...
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Fire
is represented as the symbol of Jehovah's presence and the instrument of his power, in the way eithe...
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Air gun
·- A kind of gun in which the elastic force of condensed air is used to discharge the ball. The air ...
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Gatling gun
·- An American machine gun, consisting of a cluster of barrels which, being revolved by a crank, are...
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Hotchkiss gun
·add. ·- A built-up, rifled, rapid-fire gun of oil-tempered steel, having a rectangular breechblock ...
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Krupp gun
·- A breech-loading steel cannon manufactured at the works of Friedrich Krupp, at Essen in Prussia. ...
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Maxim gun
·add. ·- A kind of machine gun;
— named after its inventor, Hiram S. Maxim.
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Vickers' gun
·add. ·- One of a system of guns manufactured by the firm of Vickers' Sons, at Sheffield, ·Eng. now ...
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Whitworth gun
·- A form of rifled cannon and small arms invented by Sir Joseph Whitworth, of Manchester, England.
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Wire gun
·add. ·- = Wire-wound gun.
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Gun Alley
1) West out of Moorfields, in Cripplegate Ward Without (O. and M. 1677-Elmes, 1831).
In Rocque, 174...
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Gun Yard
1) Out of Fore Street, in Cripplegate Ward Without (P.C. 1732).
Not named in the maps.
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air-gun
A silent weapon, which propels bullets by the expansive force of air only.
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armstrong gun
Invented by Sir William Armstrong. In its most familiar form, a rifled breech-loading gun of wrought...
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cotton, gun
See gun-cotton.
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cutty-gun
A northern term for a short pipe.
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dahlgren gun
A modification of the Paixhan gun, introduced into the United States service by Lieut., now Admiral,...
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evening gun
The warning-piece, after the firing of which the sentries challenge.
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field-gun
See field-artillery.
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gally-gun
A kind of culverin.
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great gun
The general sea-term for cannons, or officers of great repute.
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gun-chambers
In early artillery, a movable chamber with a handle, like a paterero, used in loading at the breech....
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gun-cotton
An explosive compound, having some advantages over gunpowder, but so irregular hitherto in its actio...
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gun-gear
Everything pertaining to its handling.
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gun-harpoon
See harpoon.
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gun-ladle
See ladle, for a gun.
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gun-lod
A vessel filled with combustibles, but rather for explosion than as a fire-ship.
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gun-metal
The alloy from which brass guns are cast consists of 100 parts of copper to 10 of tin, retaining muc...
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gun-pendulum
See ballistic pendulum.
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gun-room
A compartment on the after-end of the lower gun-deck of large ships of war, partly occupied by the j...
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gun-searcher
An iron instrument with several sharp-pointed prongs and a wooden handle: it is used to find whether...
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gun-shot
Formerly, the distance up to which a gun would throw a shot direct to its mark, without added elevat...
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gun-sight
See disparting a gun, or sights.
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gun-slings
Long rope grommets used for hoisting in and mounting them.
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gun-stones
An old term for cannon-balls, from stones having been first supplied to the ordnance and used for th...
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hand-gun
An old term for small arms in the times of Henry VII. and VIII.
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morning gun
The gun fired from the admiral's or senior officer's ship, to announce day-break, which is answered ...
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needle-gun
One wherein the ignition for the cartridge is produced by the penetration of the detonating priming ...
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paixhan gun
Introduced by the French General Paixhan about 1830, for the horizontal firing of heavy shells; havi...
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pivot-gun
Mounted on a frame carriage which can be turned radially, so as to point the piece in any direction....
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rodman gun
One cast on the excellent method of Captain Rodman, formerly of the United States Ordnance viz. on a...
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whitworth gun
A piece rifled by having a twisted hexagonal bore, and throwing a more elongated shot with a sharper...
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Anthony's Fire
·- ·see Saint Anthony's Fire, under <<Saint>>.
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Ash-fire
·noun A low fire used in chemical operations.
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Back fire
·add. ·- A fire started ahead of a forest or prairie fire to burn only against the wind, so that whe...
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Back-fire
·add. ·vi To have or experience a back fire or back fires;
— said of an internal-combustion engine....
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Elmo's fire
·- ·see <<Corposant>>; also Saint Elmo's Fire, under <<Saint>>.
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Fire beetle
·- A very brilliantly luminous beetle (Pyrophorus noctilucus), one of the elaters, found in Central ...
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Fire-fanged
·adj Injured as by fire; burned;
— said of manure which has lost its goodness and acquired an ashy ...
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Fire-new
·adj Fresh from the forge; bright; quite new; brand-new.
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Fire-set
·noun A set of fire irons, including, commonly, tongs, shovel, and poker.
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Knobbling fire
·- A bloomery fire. ·see <<Bloomery>>.
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Pin-fire
·add. ·adj Having a firing pin to explode the cartridge; as, a pin-fire rifle.
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Rapid-fire
·add. ·adj ·Alt. of Rapid-firing.
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Rim-fire
·add. ·adj Having the percussion fulminate in a rim surrounding the base, distinguished from center-...
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fire priggers
Villains who rob at fires under pretence of assisting in removing the goods.
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fire ship
A wench who has the venereal disease.
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fire shovel
He or she when young, was fed with a fire shovel; a saying of persons with wide mouths.
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spit fire
A violent, pettish, or passionate person.
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bush-fire
n.
forests and grass on fire in hotsummers.
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fire-stick
n.
name given to thelighted stick which the Australian natives frequently carryabout, when moving f...
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fire-tree
n.
a tree of New Zealand; anothername for Pohutukawa (q.v.). For QueenslandFire-tree, see Tulip-tre...
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to fire away
To begin; to go on. An expression borrowed from the language of soldiers and sailors.
A well-known ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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fire-cracker
A little paper cylinder filled with powder or combustible matter, imported from China. It receives i...
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fire-new
New from the forge; brand-new.--Johnson. This old and nearly obsolete expression is sometimes used b...
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cold fire
a fire laid ready for lighting. York.
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shel fire
electric sparks, often seen on clothes at night. Kent.
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fire-elding
The word Fire is redundant; for Elding itself means fuel.
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fire-flaughts
lightning, or the northern lights. N.
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fire-potter
a poker. Lane.
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concentrated fire
The bringing the whole or several guns to bear on a single point.
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curved fire
A name coming into use with the increasing application of the fire of heavy and elongated shells to ...
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direct fire
One of the five varieties into which artillerists usually divide horizontal fire (which see).
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enfilade fire
Is that which sweeps a line of works or men from one end to the other; it is on land nearly the equi...
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fire-flaire
See fiery-flaw
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fire-arms
Every description of arms that discharge missiles by gunpowder, from the heaviest cannon to a pistol...
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fire-arrows
Missiles in olden times carrying combustibles; much used in the sea-fights of the middle ages.
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fire-away
Go on with your remarks.
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fire-ball
In meteorology, a beautiful phenomenon seen at times, the origin of which is as yet imperfectly acco...
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fire-balls
Are used for destroying vessels run aground, and firing buildings. They are made of a composition of...
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fire-bare
An old term from the Anglo-Saxon for beacon.
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fire-bars
The range fronting a steam-boiler.
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fire-bill
The distribution of the officers and crew in case of the alarm of fire, a calamity requiring judicio...
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fire-booms
Long spars swung out from a ship's side to prevent the approach of fire-ships, fire-stages, or vesse...
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fire-box
A space crossing the whole front of the boiler over the furnace doors, opposite the smoke-box.
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fire-buckets
Canvas, leather, or wood buckets for quarters, each fitted with a sinnet laniard of regulated length...
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fire-door
An access to the fire-place of an engine.
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fire-drake
A meteor, or the Corpo Santo. Also, a peculiar fire-work, which Shakspeare in Henry VIII. thus menti...
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fire-eater
One notoriously fond of being in action; much humbled by iron-clads.
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fire-flaughts
The aurora borealis, or northern lights.
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fire-hearth
The security base of the galley-range and all its conveniences.
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fire-hoops
A combustible invented by the knights of Malta to throw among their besiegers, and afterwards used i...
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fire-lock
Formerly the common name for a musket; the fire-arm carried by a foot-soldier, marine, or small-arm ...
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fire-rafts
Timber constructions bearing combustible matters, used by the Chinese to destroy an enemy's vessel.
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fire-rails
See rails.
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fire-roll
A peculiar beat of the drum to order people to their stations on an alarm of fire. Summons to quarte...
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fire-screens
Pieces of fear-nought, a thick woollen felt put round the hatchways in action.
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fire-ship
A vessel filled with combustible materials, and fitted with grappling-irons, to hook and set fire to...
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fire-swab
The bunch of rope-yarns sometimes secured to the tompion, saturated with water to cool the gun in ac...
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fire-works
See pyrotechny.
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galling-fire
A sustained discharge of cannon, or small arms, which by its execution greatly annoys the enemy.
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grazing-fire
That which sweeps close to the surface it defends.
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hang-fire
When the priming burns without igniting the cartridge, or the charge does not rapidly ignite after p...
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horizontal fire
From artillery, is that in which the piece is laid either direct on the object, or with but small el...
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plunging fire
A pitching discharge of shot from a higher level, at such an angle that the shot do not ricochet.
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port-fire
A stick of composition, generally burning an inch a minute, used to convey fire from the slow-match ...
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vertical fire
In artillery, that directed upward at such an angle as that it will fall vertically, or nearly so, t...
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Hydropneumatic gun carriage
·add. ·- A disappearing gun carriage in which the recoil is checked by cylinders containing liquid a...
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Vickers-Maxim gun
·add. ·- One of a system of ordnance, including machine, quick-fire, coast, and field guns, of all c...
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Wire-wound gun
·add. ·- A gun in the construction of which an inner tube (either entire or in segments) is wound wi...
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Gun Square, Houndsditch
East out of Houndsditch, at 150 and 151. In Portsoken Ward (P.O. Directory).
Former name : "Gun Yar...
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Gun Yard, Houndsditch
See Gun Square, Houndsditch.
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firing a gun
Introducing a story by head and shoulders. A man wanting to tell a particular story, said to the com...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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disparting a gun
To bring the line of sight and line of metal to be parallel by setting up a mark on the muzzle-ring ...
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gun-tackle purchase
A tackle composed of a rope rove through two single blocks, the standing part being made fast to the...
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nailing a gun
Synonymous with cloying or spiking. When necessary to abandon cannon, or when the enemy's artillery,...
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spiking a gun
Driving a large nail or iron spike into the vent, which will render the cannon unserviceable until r...
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Rapid-fire mount
·add. ·- A mount permitting easy and quick elevation or depression and training of the gun, and fitt...
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Flame of fire
Is the chosen symbol of the holiness of God (Ex. 3:2; Rev. 2:18), as indicating "the intense, all-co...
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Fire Ball Alley
See Partridge Court.
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Fire Ball court
East out of Houndsditch. In Portsoken Ward (25 Eliz. 1583) (Lond. Inq. p.m. III. p. 64) to O.S. 25 i...
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Fire Ball Court
Near First (Aldermanbury) Postern, London Wall (Strype, ed. 1755-Boyle, 1799).
Not named in the map...
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Fire of London
In 1666, from September 2nd to 6th.
Commenced at the house of a baker in Pudding Lane, near London ...
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Sun Fire Office
See Bank Buildings1, Cornhill.
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to fire a slug
To drink a dram.
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hell fire dick
The Cambridge driver of the Telegraph. The favorite companion of the University fashionables, and th...
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elmo's fire, st.
See compasant.
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fire, loss by
Is within the policy of insurance, whether it be by accident, or by the fault of the master or marin...
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fire-and-lights
Nickname of the master-at-arms.
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fire-hearth-carline
The timber let in under the beams on which the fire-hearth stands, with pillars underneath, and choc...
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repeating fire-arm
One by which a number of charges, previously inserted, may be fired off in rapid succession, or afte...
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son of a gun
This phrase is heard in low language with us as in England.
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sure as a gun
Absolutely certain. A common colloquial expression.--Brockett.
There's luck, says auld Lizzy, in fa...
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carriage of a gun
The frame on which it is mounted for firing, constructed either exclusively for this purpose, or als...
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chase of a gun
That part of the conical external surface extending from the moulding in front of the trunnions to t...
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cleat a gun, to
To nail large cleats under the trucks of the lower-deckers in bad weather, to insure their not fetch...
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face of a gun
The surface of the metal at the extremity of the muzzle.
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gun and head money
Given to the captors of an enemy's ship of war destroyed, or deserted, in fight. It was formerly ass...
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handles of a gun
The dolphins.
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head and gun-money
An encouragement in the prize acts by which £5 a head is given to the captors for every person on bo...
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ladle, for a gun
An instrument for charging with loose powder; formed of a cylindrical sheet of copper-tube fitted to...
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lay a gun, to
So to direct it as that its shot may be expected to strike a given object; for which purpose its axi...
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mouldings of a gun
The several rings and ornaments.
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mount a gun, to
To place it on its carriage.
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neck of a gun
The narrow part where the chase meets the swell of the muzzle.
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point a gun, to
To direct it on a given object.
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range of a gun
The horizontal distance which it will send a shot, at a stated elevation, to the point of its first ...
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son of a gun
An epithet conveying contempt in a slight degree, and originally applied to boys born afloat, when w...
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Burnt in the Fire 1666.
Not further identified.
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false fire, blue flames
A composition of combustibles filled into a wooden tube, which, upon being set fire to, burns with a...
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Vickers-Maxim automatic machine gun
·add. ·- An automatic machine gun in which the mechanism is worked by the recoil, assisted by the pr...
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arms of a great gun
The trunnions.
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hammer, of a gun-lock
Formerly the steel covering of the pan from which the flint of the cock struck sparks on to the prim...
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lady of the gun-room
A gunner's mate, who takes charge of the after-scuttle, where gunners' stores are kept.
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loops of a gun-carriage
The iron eye-bolts to which the tackles are hooked.
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notch-sight of a gun
A sight having a V-shaped notch, wherein the eye easily finds the lowest or central point.
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sole of a gun-port
The lower part of it, more properly called port-sill.
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transom of a gun-carriage
A cross piece of timber uniting the cheeks; generally between the trunnion-holes and the fore axle-t...
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vent-field of a gun
The raised tablet in the metal near the breech in which the vent is bored.
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Hand in Hand Fire Office
At No. 1 Bridge Street, Blackfriars, on the east side (Elmes, 1831).
Est. 1696 in Angel Court, Snow...
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Phoenix Assurance Co., Fire Offlce
On the south side of Lombard Street at the northeast corner of Abchurch Lane at No.19 (P.O. Director...
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to fire into the wrong flock
is a metaphorical expression used at the West, denoting that one has mistaken his object, as when a ...
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Gun Yard, Little Tower Hill, East
East out of Little Tower Hill. In St. Katherine's precinct (O. and M. 1677-Lond. Guide, 1758).
Also...
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Gun Yard, Little Tower Hill, North
North out of Little Tower Hill (O. and M. 1677).
Site has been rebuilt.
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to have one's fat in the fire
is to have one's plans frustrated. A vulgar expression borrowed from the vocabulary of the kitchen.
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