A steel-pronged tool to search for defects in the bore of a gun.
·noun An inspector of leather. II. Searcher ·noun An implement for sampling butter; a butter trier....
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
A custom-house officer employed in taking an account of goods to be exported. Also, see gun-searcher...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·vi A race; lineage. II. Spring ·vi A youth; a springal. III. Spring ·vi Elastic power or force. ...
(Heb. ain, "the bright open source, the eye of the landscape"). To be carefully distinguished from "...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
A crack running obliquely through any part of a mast or yard, which renders it unsafe to carry the u...
An iron instrument with several sharp-pointed prongs and a wooden handle: it is used to find whether...
·add. ·- A variety of steel, elastic, strong, and tough, rolled for springs, ·etc. ...
The source of continuous motion in a time-keeper. Also, that part of a musket-lock which is sunk int...
In a steamer, a fore-and-aft beam for connecting the two paddle-beams, and supporting the outer end ...
One jagged or split at the point, thereby forming springs to prevent its drawing. ...
Are rather smaller than the stays, and are placed above them, being intended as substitutes should t...
The periodical excess of the elevation and depression of the tide, which occurs when both the sun an...
Newgate, or any other gaol: IRISH. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
See spring. ...