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Martello tower

A building of masonry generally circular usually erected on the seacoast with a gun on the summit mounted on a traversing platform so as to be fired in any direction...

machine pistol

A fully automatic pistol a small submachine gun...

machine gunner

A soldier who operates a machine gun...

A short piece of rope or line for fastening something in ships as the lanyards of the gun ports of the buoy and the like esp pieces passing through the dead eyes and used to extend shrouds stays etc...

Rifling

The act or process of making the grooves in a rifled cannon or gun barrel...

Ricochet

A rebound or skipping as of a ball along the ground when a gun is fired at a low angle of elevation or of a fiat stone thrown along the surface of water...

Explosive

Explosive, means gunpowder, introglycerine, nitroglycol, gun-cotton, di-nitro-toluene, tri-nitro-toluene, picric acid, di-nitro-phenol, tri-nitro-resorcinol (styphnic acid), cyclo-trimethylene-tri-nitramine, penta-erythritol-tetranitrate, tetryl, nitro-guanidine, lead azide, lead styphynte, fulminate of mercury or any other metal, diazo-di-nitro-phenol, coloured fires or any other substance whether a single chemical compound or a mixture of substances, whether solid or liquid or gaseous used or manufactured with a view to produce a practical effect by explosion or pyrotechnic effect; and includes fog-signals, fireworks, fuses, rockets, percussion-caps, detonators, cartridges, ammuni-tion of all descriptions and every adaptation or preparation of an explosive as defined in this clause. [Explosives Act, 1884 (4 of 1884), s. 4 (d)]...

Rim fire

Having the percussion fulminate in a rim surrounding the base distinguished from center fire said of cartridges also using rim fire cartridges as a rim fire gun Such cartridges are now little used...

Hagnebut

Hagnebut, a hand-gun of a larger description than the hagne, 2 & 3 Edw. 6, c. 14; 4 & 5 P. & M. c. 2...

Vagrants

Vagrants, sturdy beggars; vagabonds.The Act which is now in force, embodying, mitigating, and extending numerous former provisions, is the (English) Vagrancy Act, 1824 (5 Geo. 4, c. 83). It has been extended by the Vagrancy Act, 1838, as to re-commitment on failure to prosecute, appeal, and exhibition of obscene prints; by the (English) Vagrant Act Amendment Act, 1873, as to gambling and betting in streets; by the Vagrancy Act, 1898, amended by the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1912, s. 7, as to men living on earnings of prostitution; and by (English) Poor Law Act, 1930, s. 150, as to obtaining relief by falsehood. It points out three classes of persons:-1st, idle and disorderly persons; 2nd, rogues and vagabonds; 3rd, incorrigible rogues.First. Idle and Disorderly Persons.-The following are, under the Vagrancy Act, 1824, s. 3, to be deemed 'idle and disorderly persons,' so that any justice of the peace may commit them (being convicted before him) to the house of correction to hard labou...

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