Is shorter and flatter than the ordinary handspike, and is shod with iron at the point, so that it bites with greater certainty against the trucks of guns.
·noun A bar or lever, generally of wood, used in a windlass or capstan, for heaving anchor, and, in ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
A lever made of tough ash, and used to heave round the windlass in order to draw up the anchor from ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
To kiss the gunner's daughter; to be tied to a gun and flogged on the posteriors; a mode of punishin...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
The name of the gun to which boys were married, or lashed, to be punished. ...
A petty officer appointed to assist the gunner. ...
In destroying and bursting guns, means a fragment of the breech, which generally flies upward. ...
See quadrant. ...
An old rating for the man who made the cartridge-bags. ...
See yeoman. ...
Men who have been trained in a gunnery ship, and thereby become qualified to instruct others in that...