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Aries
noun · 78% connection
A battering-ram.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: discharging, cannon, throwing, ball, shell.
Arietation
noun · 78% connection
The act of butting like a ram; act of using a battering-ram.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: discharging, cannon, throwing, ball, shell.
Army worm
unknown · 78% connection
A lepidopterous insect, which in the larval state often travels in great multitudes from field to field, destroying grass, grain, and…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: discharging, cannon, throwing, ball, shell.
Ball
noun · 78% connection
Any solid spherical, cylindrical, or conical projectile of lead or iron, to be discharged from a firearm; as, a cannon ball; a rifle b…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: discharging, cannon, throwing, ball, shell.
Barratry
noun · 78% connection
A fraudulent breach of duty or willful act of known illegality on the part of a master of a ship, in his character of master, or of th…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: discharging, cannon, throwing, ball, shell.
Battery
verb · 78% connection
The act of battering or beating.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: discharging, cannon, throwing, ball, shell.
Bomb
noun · 78% connection
A shell; esp. a spherical shell, like those fired from mortars. See Shell.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: discharging, cannon, throwing, ball, shell.
Bombardment
noun · 78% connection
An attack upon a fortress or fortified town, with shells, hot shot, rockets, etc.; the act of throwing bombs and shot into a town or f…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: discharging, cannon, throwing, ball, shell.
Borough
noun · 78% connection
In England, an incorporated town that is not a city; also, a town that sends members to parliament; in Scotland, a body corporate, con…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: discharging, cannon, throwing, ball, shell.
Bottomry
noun · 78% connection
A contract in the nature of a mortgage, by which the owner of a ship, or the master as his agent, hypothecates and binds the ship (and…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: discharging, cannon, throwing, ball, shell.
Breach
noun · 78% connection
A gap or opening made made by breaking or battering, as in a wall or fortification; the space between the parts of a solid body rent b…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: discharging, cannon, throwing, ball, shell.
Cantonment
noun · 78% connection
A town or village, or part of a town or village, assigned to a body of troops for quarters; temporary shelter or place of rest for an…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: discharging, cannon, throwing, ball, shell.
Carom
noun · 78% connection
A shot in which the ball struck with the cue comes in contact with two or more balls on the table; a hitting of two or more balls with…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: discharging, cannon, throwing, ball, shell.
Carronade
noun · 78% connection
A kind of short cannon, formerly in use, designed to throw a large projectile with small velocity, used for the purpose of breaking or…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: discharging, cannon, throwing, ball, shell.
City
noun · 78% connection
A corporate town; in the United States, a town or collective body of inhabitants, incorporated and governed by a mayor and aldermen or…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: discharging, cannon, throwing, ball, shell.
Demolition
noun · 78% connection
The act of overthrowing, pulling down, or destroying a pile or structure; destruction by violence; utter overthrow; -- opposed to cons…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: discharging, cannon, throwing, ball, shell.
Discharger
noun · 78% connection
One who, or that which, discharges. Specifically, in electricity, an instrument for discharging a Leyden jar, or electrical battery, b…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: discharging, cannon, throwing, ball, shell.
Dismantle
verb · 78% connection
To strip of furniture and equipments, guns, etc.; to unrig; to strip of walls or outworks; to break down; as, to dismantle a fort, a t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: discharging, cannon, throwing, ball, shell.
