·- ·see under Metal.
·noun The rails of a railroad. II. Metal ·noun Glass in a state of fusion. III. Metal ·noun A mine...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
A word comprehending the great guns, or ordnance generally, of a ship or battery. ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·- A kind of gun metal, containing copper, zinc, and iron, but no tin. ...
·- A soft white alloy of variable composition (as a nine parts of tin to one of copper, or of fifty ...
·- A hard alloy or bronze, consisting usually of about three parts of copper to one of tin; — used ...
·- A variety of clay ironstone, in Staffordshire, England, used for making tools. ...
·- An alloy of tin, copper, and mercury, sometimes used for the bearings and packings of machinery. ...
·add. ·- The malleable iron produced by mitis casting; — called also simply mitis. ...
·- An alloy of silver, copper, and lead made at Tula in Russia. ...
·- A fusible alloy consisting of one or two parts of cadmium, two parts of tin, four of lead, with s...
A silversmith. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
The alloy from which brass guns are cast consists of 100 parts of copper to 10 of tin, retaining muc...
, or heavy ordnance. Ordnance of large calibre. ...
The condition of a gun when the muzzle is depressed, and the metal, i.e. the breech, raised; the pro...
The weight of iron which the whole of the guns are capable of projecting at one round from both side...
The weight of iron which the guns of a ship can project, when single-shotted, from one side. (See we...
That which the axis of a gun has above the object when its line of metal is pointed on the latter; i...
To elevate the breech, and depress thereby the muzzle of a gun. ...