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Home Dictionary Name: gun for Page: 3Rapid fire mount
A mount permitting easy and quick elevation or depression and training of the gun and fitted with a device for taking up the recoil...
pyroxylin
A substance resembling gun cotton in composition and properties but distinct in that it is more highly nitrified and is soluble in alcohol ether etc called also pyroxyle...
Prolonge
A rope with a hook and a toggle sometimes used to drag a gun carriage or to lash it to the limber and for various other purposes...
Popgun
A childs gun a tube and rammer for shooting pellets with a popping noise by compression of air...
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...
Polygrooved
Having many grooves as a polygrooved rifle or gun referring to the rifling...
Krupp gun
A breech loading steel cannon manufactured at the works of Friedrich Krupp at Essen in Prussia Guns of over eight inch bore are made up of several concentric cylinders those of a smaller size are forged solid...
Nitrosaccharin
An explosive nitro derivative of certain sugars analogous to nitroglycerin gun cotton etc...
Nitrogelatin
An explosive consisting of gun cotton and camphor dissolved in nitroglycerin...
VerbarMitrailleuse
A breech loading machine gun consisting of a number of barrels fitted together so arranged that the barrels can be fired simultaneously or successively and rapidly...
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