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Firing
·noun Fuel; firewood or coal. II. Firing ·noun The act of disharging firearms. III. Firing ·noun T...

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Pin
·noun Mood; humor. II. Pin ·noun A rolling-pin. III. Pin ·noun The tenon of a dovetail joint. IV....

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pin
In or to a merry pin; almost drunk: an allusion to a sort of tankard, formerly used in the north, ha...

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Rapid-firing
·add. ·adj Firing shots in rapid succession. II. Rapid-firing ·add. ·adj In Great Britain and Europ...

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cease firing
The order to leave off. ...

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firing-party
A detachment of soldiers, marines, or small-arm men selected to fire over the grave of an individual...

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Belaying pin
·- A strong pin in the side of a vessel, or by the mast, round which ropes are wound when they are f...

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Breech pin
·- ·Alt. of Breech screw. ...

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Corking pin
·- A pin of a large size, formerly used attaching a woman's headdress to a cork mold. ...

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Pin-eyed
·adj Having the stigma visible at the throad of a gamopetalous corolla, while the stamens are concea...

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Pin-fire
·add. ·adj Having a firing pin to explode the cartridge; as, a pin-fire rifle. ...

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Pin-tailed
·adj Having a tapered tail, with the middle feathers longest; — said of birds. ...

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Rolling-pin
·noun A cylindrical piece of wood or other material, with which paste or dough may be rolled out and...

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Crisping-pin
(Isa. 3:22; R.V., "satchel"), some kind of female ornament, probably like the modern reticule. The H...

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pin basket
The youngest child. ...

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pin money
An allowance settled on a married woman for her pocket expences. ...

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pin-bush
n. i.q. Needle-bush (q.v.) ...

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linch-pin
the penis of a stag. Shropsh. ...

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inch-pin
the penis of a stag. Shropsh. ...

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pin-cod
a pincushion. ...

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crank-pin
In steam machinery, it goes through both arms of the crank at their extremities; to this pin the con...

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lins pin
See linch ...

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pin-maul
See maul. ...

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pin-tail
The Anas acuta, a species of duck with a long pointed tail. Also, in artillery, the iron pin on the ...

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safety-pin
To secure the head of the capstan-bar. ...

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thole-pin
[from the Anglo-Saxon thol]. Certain pins in the gunwale of a boat, instead of the rowlock-poppets, ...

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firing a gun
Introducing a story by head and shoulders. A man wanting to tell a particular story, said to the com...

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point-blank firing
That wherein no elevation is given to the gun, its axis being pointed for the object. ...

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pin-panniebly-fellow
a miserable, covetous, suspicious fellow, one who pins up or fastens his paniers and baskets. N. ...

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nine-pin block
A block in that form, mostly used for a fair-leader under the cross-pieces of the forecastle and qua...

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