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Harpoon
·vt To strike, catch, or kill with a harpoon.
II. Harpoon ·noun A spear or javelin used to strike a...
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The Harpoon
Messuage in East Smithfield in parish of St. Botolph without Aldgate, 1567. Left by Ralph Carter for...
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harpoon
, or harpago.
A spear or javelin with a barbed point, used to strike whales and other fish. The ha...
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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...
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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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spanning a harpoon
Fixing the line which connects the harpoon and its staff. The harpoon iron is a socketed tool, taper...
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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-fire
The morning or evening guns, familiarly termed "the admiral falling down the hatchway."
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gun-gear
Everything pertaining to its handling.
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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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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...
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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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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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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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Gun Yard, Little Tower Hill, East
East out of Little Tower Hill. In St. Katherine's precinct (O. and M. 1677-Lond. Guide, 1758).
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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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