, or heavy ordnance.
Ordnance of large calibre.
·vt To make heavy. II. Heavy ·adj Having the heaves. III. Heavy ·superl With child; pregnant. IV....
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
·noun The rails of a railroad. II. Metal ·noun Glass in a state of fusion. III. Metal ·noun A mine...
A word comprehending the great guns, or ordnance generally, of a ship or battery. ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·- Native barium sulphate or barite, — so called because of its high specific gravity as compared wi...
·adj Wearing heavy or complete armor; carrying heavy arms. ...
·adj Clumsy; awkward. ...
·adj Dull; stupid. ...
·adj Having the top or upper part too heavy for the lower part. ...
Drunk. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
A strong wind, in which a ship is reduced to storm-staysails and close-reefed main-topsail. Force 10...
See heavy metal ...
High and strong waves. ...
·- A kind of gun metal, containing copper, zinc, and iron, but no tin. ...
·- A soft white alloy of variable composition (as a nine parts of tin to one of copper, or of fifty ...
·- A hard alloy or bronze, consisting usually of about three parts of copper to one of tin; — used ...
·- A variety of clay ironstone, in Staffordshire, England, used for making tools. ...
·- An alloy of tin, copper, and mercury, sometimes used for the bearings and packings of machinery. ...
·add. ·- The malleable iron produced by mitis casting; — called also simply mitis. ...
·- ·see under <<Metal>>. ...
·- An alloy of silver, copper, and lead made at Tula in Russia. ...
·- A fusible alloy consisting of one or two parts of cadmium, two parts of tin, four of lead, with s...
A silversmith. ...
The alloy from which brass guns are cast consists of 100 parts of copper to 10 of tin, retaining muc...
The condition of a gun when the muzzle is depressed, and the metal, i.e. the breech, raised; the pro...
Dense ice, which has a great depth in the water in proportion to its size, and is not in a state of ...
The weight of iron which the whole of the guns are capable of projecting at one round from both side...
The weight of iron which the guns of a ship can project, when single-shotted, from one side. (See we...
That which the axis of a gun has above the object when its line of metal is pointed on the latter; i...
To elevate the breech, and depress thereby the muzzle of a gun. ...