Placed in a line or row; a term hydrographically applied to hills, as "the coast-range." Also, galley-range, or fire-grate.
·v A kitchen grate. II. Range ·v ·see Range of cable, below. III. Range ·v A bolting sieve to sift...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
·add. ·- The range within which the fire of small arms is very destructive. With the magazine rifle,...
In Kentucky, a park. ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
To sail in a parallel direction, and near to; as "we ranged the coast;" "the enemy came ranging up a...
The Sailor's Word-Book
The windlass-bitts (which see). ...
The distance to which a shot was reckoned to range straight, without appreciable drooping from the f...
A sufficient quantity of cable left slack to allow the anchor to reach the ground before the cable i...
A lubberly mode of estimating the distance of an enemy's ship or fort by firing a shot at it. ...
The horizontal distance which it will send a shot, at a stated elevation, to the point of its first ...