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Act of firing a gun; a shot.

One whose occupation is to make or repair small firearms; an armorer.

The art or business of a gunsmith.

A stick to ram down the charge of a musket, etc.; a rammer or ramrod. [R.]

The stock or wood to which the barrel of a hand gun is fastened.

A cannon ball; -- so called because originally made of stone. [Obs.] Shak.

A topmast arranged with metal bands so that it will readily slide up and down the lower mast.

The chain ordinarily used in measuring land. See Chain, n., 4, and Gunter's scale.

A logarithmic line on Gunter's scale, used for performing the multiplication and division of numbers mechanically by the dividers; -- called also line of lines, and line of numbers.

ound the hour of the day, the sun's azimuth, the altitude of objects in degrees, etc. See Gunter's scale.

A scale invented by the Rev. Edmund Gunter (1581-1626), a professor of astronomy at Gresham College, London, who invented also Gunter's chain, and Gunter's quadrant.

stle, being the uppermost bend, which finishes the upper works of the hull. [Written also gunnel.]

A cannon capable of being trained at very high angles for use against aircraft.

A kind of gun in which the elastic force of condensed air is used to discharge the ball. The air is powerfully compressed into a reservoir attached to the gun, by a condensing pump, and is controlled by a valve actuated by the trigger.

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A tube, as of cane or reed, sometimes twelve feet long, through which an arrow or other projectile may be impelled by the force of the breath. It is a weapon much used by certain Indians of America and the West Indies; -- called also blowpipe, and blowtube. See Sumpitan.

A richly flavored wine, mostly red, made in Burgundy, France. Burgundy pitch, a resinous substance prepared from the exudation of the Norway spruce (Abies excelsa) by melting in hot water and straining through cloth. The genuine Burgundy pitch, supposed to have been first prepared in Burgundy, is rare, but there are ma…

An American machine gun, consisting of a cluster of barrels which, being revolved by a crank, are automatically loaded and fired.

A built-up, rifled, rapid-fire gun of oil-tempered steel, having a rectangular breechblock which moves horizontally or vertically in a mortise cut completely through the jacket. It is made in France.

A disappearing gun carriage in which the recoil is checked by cylinders containing liquid and air, the air when compressed furnishing the power for restoring the gun to the firing position. It is used with some English and European heavy guns.