Cannonering - Law Dictionary Search Results
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Furnished with cannon...
Cannoneer
A man who manages or fires cannon...
Cannonering
The use of cannon...
Cascabel
The projection in rear of the breech of a cannon usually a knob or breeching loop connected with the gun by a neck In old writers it included all in rear of the base ring See Illust of Cannon...
Gunner
One who works a gun or cannon whether on land sea or in the air a cannoneer...
Pompom
originally a Vickers Maxim one pounder automatic machine cannon using metallic ammunition fed from a lopped belt attached to the gun popularly so called from its peculiar drumming sound in action More recently the term is applied mostly to automatic antiaircraft cannons...
Rimbase
A short cylinder connecting a trunnion with the body of a cannon See Illust of Cannon...
Bombard
A piece of heavy ordnance formerly used for throwing stones and other ponderous missiles It was the earliest kind of cannon...
Boring
The act or process of one who or that which bores as the boring of cannon the boring of piles and ship timbers by certain marine mollusks...
Bronze
An alloy of copper and tin to which small proportions of other metals especially zinc are sometimes added It is hard and sonorous and is used for statues bells cannon etc the proportions of the ingredients being varied to suit the particular purposes The varieties containing the higher proportions of tin are brittle as in bell metal and speculum metal...
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