·add. ·- The range within which the fire of small arms is very destructive. With the magazine rifle, this is six hundred yards.
·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
Placed in a line or row; a term hydrographically applied to hills, as "the coast-range." Also, galle...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·adj Fertile. ·see <<Battel>>, a. II. Battle ·vt A division of an army; a battalion. III. Battle ·...
An engagement between two fleets, or even single ships, usually called a sea-fight or engagement. Th...
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 windlass-bitts (which see). ...
·add. ·- An armor-plated man-of-war built of steel and heavily armed, generally having from ten thou...
·noun ·Alt. of Battle-axe. ...
·noun A kind of broadax formerly used as an offensive weapon. ...
A mallet or heavy war-club. Applied metaphorically (Jer. 51:20) to Cyrus, God's instrument in destro...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
The war-bow used in fighting (Zech. 9:10; 10:4). "Thy bow was made quite naked" (Hab. 3:9) means tha...
A battle or bout at cudgels or fisty-cuffs, wherein more than two persons are engaged: perhaps from ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
an ear-wig. Derb. ...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
(American). See fighting-lanterns. ...
A term derived from cock-fighting, but generally applied to a noisy confused row. ...
A conflict in which both parties claim the victory, or retire upon equal terms. ...
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. ...
A disposition of the fleet at the moment of engagement, by signal or previous order, on which occasi...
The arranging of ships or troops so as to engage the enemy to the best advantage. ...
The horizontal distance which it will send a shot, at a stated elevation, to the point of its first ...
To shift as well as we can; to contend with a difficulty. To depend on one's own exertions. ...
Formerly those of 74 guns and upwards; or in these iron days, any vessel capable of giving and takin...