A word comprehending the great guns, or ordnance generally, of a ship or battery.
·noun The rails of a railroad. II. Metal ·noun Glass in a state of fusion. III. Metal ·noun A mine...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
·- 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. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
The alloy from which brass guns are cast consists of 100 parts of copper to 10 of tin, retaining muc...
The Sailor's Word-Book
, or heavy ordnance. Ordnance of large calibre. ...
The condition of a gun when the muzzle is depressed, and the metal, i.e. the breech, raised; the pro...
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. ...