An improved pendulum to facilitate the accurate elevation and depression of guns on board ship, by means of coloured spirits or quicksilver confined in a tube.
·noun A body so suspended from a fixed point as to swing freely to and fro by the alternate action o...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
A gravitating instrument for measuring the motion of a ship and thereby assisting the accuracy of he...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of <<Train>>. II. Training ·noun The act of one who trains; the act or process of e...
An instrument for determining the velocity of projectiles. The original pendulum was of very massive...
See ballistic pendulum. ...
·- A method of training trees or shrubs in the shape of a cone or distaff by tying down the branches...
The day when the militia are called out to be reviewed. ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
A gravitating instrument for the same purpose as the training-pendulum. ...
H.M.S. Britannia, commanded by a captain and complement of officers for the primary training of nava...
A vessel properly equipped with instructors and means to rear able-bodied lads for the merchant serv...