A sloop expressly fitted for transporting ordnance stores to ships, and from port to port.
·interj Ho! Halloe! Stop!. II. Hoy ·noun A small coaster vessel, usually sloop-rigged, used in conv...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
·noun Heavy weapons of warfare; cannon, or great guns, mortars, and howitzers; artillery; sometimes,...
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The Sailor's Word-Book
A call to a man. Also, a small vessel, usually rigged as a sloop, and employed in carrying passenger...
A general name for all sorts of great guns which are used in war. Also, all that relates to the arti...
neither man nor boy, a young man between both. N. ...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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An ordnance vessel expressly fitted to convey powder from the land magazine to a ship; it invariably...
That which is provided with spiral grooves in the interior of the bore, to give rotatory motion to t...
A sloop formerly expressly licensed for carrying stores to the E. I. Company's ships. ...
The end of the bore modified to receive the charge of powder. In mortars, howitzers, and shell-guns,...
The forward extremity of the cylinder, and the metal which surrounds it, extending back to the neck,...