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A stopper of a cannon or a musket. See Tampion.

r for a given expenditure; -- called also mile run. -- Train of artillery, any number of cannon, mortars, etc., with the attendants and carriages which follow them into the field. Campbell (Dict. Mil. Sci.). -- Train of mechanism, a series of moving pieces, as wheels and pinions, each of which is follower to that whi…

turn to the one side or the other, in order to point in any direction; as, to traverse a cannon.

mortar, or howitzer, serving to support it on the cheeks of the carriage. See Illust. of Cannon.

A revolving tower constructed of thick iron plates, within which cannon are mounted. Turrets are used on vessels of war and on land.

To free the breech of, as a cannon, from its fastenings or coverings. Pennant.

ished with a sight, or with a properly adjusted sight; as, to shoot and unsighted rife or cannon.

To remove a spike from, as from the vent of a cannon.

city of wind; the velocity of a planet or comet in its orbit or course; the velocity of a cannon ball; the velocity of light.

A collection of wagons; wagons, collectively. Wagonage, provender, and a piece or two of cannon. Carlyle.

A form of rifled cannon and small arms invented by Sir Joseph Whitworth, of Manchester, England.

Air artificially put in motion by any force or action; as, the wind of a cannon ball; the wind of a bellows.

A small cannon supported by a swiveled rest on the back of a camel, whence it is fired, -- used in the East.