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Krupp gun

A breech loading steel cannon manufactured at the works of Friedrich Krupp at Essen in Prussia Guns of over eight inch

load shedding

The act or process of disconnecting the electric current on certain lines when the demand becomes greater than the supply

Double charge

To load with a double charge as of gunpowder

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Snider rifle

A breech loading rifle formerly used in the British service so called from the inventor

Load-line

of a ship to show how far up the sides the water will rise when the ship is loaded. The (English) Merchant Shipping Act, 1890 (53 & 54 Vict. c. 9), substituted a 'maximum load-line in salt

Motor Car

propelled vehicle, not being a motor cycle or an invalid carriage, which is constructed itself to carry a load or passengers and of which the weight unlades: (1) if it is constructed solely for the carriage of

Reddendo singula singulis

singulis, the method of con-struction applied in such a sentence as this, 'If any one shall draw or load any sword or gun'; the word 'draw' is applied to 'sword' only, and the word 'load' to 'gun'

Wharf

5, c. clxxiii.). A structure on shore of navigable waters, to which a vessel can be brought for loading or unloading, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1589. There are two kinds-1st, legal, which are certain wharves

Yacht

possession in which the managing owner resides (see s. 3, ibid.). Pleasure yachts are also exempt from the Load Line and Loading Provisions (Part II., ss. 40-67) of the Merchant Shipping (Safety and (English) Load Line Conventions)

Breech action

The breech mechanism in breech loading small arms and certain special guns as automatic and machine guns used frequently in referring to the method

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