Word Meanings - MITRAILLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Shot or bits of iron used sometimes in loading cannon.

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• CANNON BONE
  See BONE
• SOMETIMES
  1. Formerly; sometime. That fair and warlike form In which the majesty of buried Denmark Did sometimes march. Shak. 2. At times; at intervals; now and then;occasionally. It is good that we sometimes be contradicted. Jer. Taylor. Sometimes . . .
• CANNONADE
  1. The act of discharging cannon and throwing ball, shell, etc., for the purpose of destroying an army, or battering a town, ship, or fort; -- usually, an attack of some continuance. A furious cannonade was kept up from the whole circle
• LOADSTAR; LODESTAR
  A star that leads; a guiding star; esp., the polestar; the cynosure. Chaucer. " Your eyes are lodestars." Shak. The pilot can no loadstar see. Spenser.
• CANNONEER; CANNONIER
  A man who manages, or fires, cannon.
• LOADSTONE; LODESTONE
  A piece of magnetic iron ore possessing polarity like a magnetic needle. See Magnetite.
• CANNONED
  Furnished with cannon. "Gilbralter's cannoned steep." M. Arnold.
• LOADMANAGE; LODEMANAGE
  Pilotage; skill of a pilot or loadsman. Chaucer.
• LOADER
  One who, or that which, loads; a mechanical contrivance for loading, as a gun.
• LOAD
  The work done by a steam engine or other prime mover when working. Load line, or Load water line , the line on the outside of a vessel indicating the depth to which it sinks in the water when loaded. Syn. -- Burden; lading; weight; cargo.
• LOADING
  1. The act of putting a load on or into. 2. A load; cargo; burden. Shak.
• LOADSMAN; LODESMAN
  A pilot. Chaucer.
• CANNONERING
  The use of cannon. Burke.
• CANNONRY
  Cannon, collectively; artillery. The ringing of bells and roaring of cannonry proclaimed his course through the country. W. Irving.
• CANNON
  A hollow cylindrical piece carried by a revolving shaft, on which it may, however, revolve independently. (more info) 1. A great gun; a piece of ordnance or artillery; a firearm for discharging heavy shot with great force. Note: Cannons are made
• SURFACE LOADING
  The weight supported per square unit of surface; the quotient obtained by dividing the gross weight, in pounds, of a fully loaded flying machine, by the total area, in square feet, of its supporting surface.
• RELOAD
  To load again, as a gun.
• BREECH-LOADING
  Receiving the charge at the breech instead of at the muzzle.
• UNLOAD
  1. To take the load from; to discharge of a load or cargo; to disburden; as, to unload a ship; to unload a beast. 2. Hence, to relieve from anything onerous. 3. To discharge or remove, as a load or a burden; as, to unload the cargo of a vessel.
• MUZZLE-LOADING
  Receiving its charge through the muzzle; as, a muzzle-loading rifle.
• UNDERLOAD STARTER
  A motor starter provided with an underload switch.
• DEMICANNON
  A kind of ordnance, carrying a ball weighing from thirty to thirty-six pounds. Shak.
• CANONIC; CANNONICAL
  Of or pertaining to a canon; established by, or according to a , canon or canons. "The oath of canonical obedience." Hallam. Canonical books, or Canonical Scriptures, those books which are declared by the canons of the church to be of
• UNLOADER
  One who, or that which, unloads; a device for unloading, as hay from a wagon.
• SHIPLOAD
  The load, or cargo, of a ship.
• BREECHLOADER
  A firearm which receives its load at the breech. For cavalry, the revolver and breechloader will supersede the saber. Rep. Sec. War .