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Accelerograph
noun · 78% connection
An apparatus for studying the combustion of powder in guns, etc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: machine, raising, guns, mortar, carriages.
Artillery
noun · 78% connection
Cannon; great guns; ordnance, including guns, mortars, howitzers, etc., with their equipment of carriages, balls, bombs, and shot of a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: machine, raising, guns, mortar, carriages.
Attachment
noun · 78% connection
Something attached; some adjunct attached to an instrument, machine, or other object; as, a sewing machine attachment (i. e., a device…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: machine, raising, guns, mortar, carriages.
Battery
verb · 78% connection
A company or division of artillery, including the gunners, guns, horses, and all equipments. In the United States, a battery of flying…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: machine, raising, guns, mortar, carriages.
Brocatel
noun · 78% connection
A kind of coarse brocade, or figured fabric, used chiefly for tapestry, linings for carriages, etc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: machine, raising, guns, mortar, carriages.
Bufferhead
noun · 78% connection
The head of a buffer, which recieves the concussion, in railroad carriages.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: machine, raising, guns, mortar, carriages.
Carriageable
adjective · 78% connection
Passable by carriages; that can be conveyed in carriages.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: machine, raising, guns, mortar, carriages.
Carrier
noun · 78% connection
That which drives or carries; as: (a) A piece which communicates to an object in a lathe the motion of the face plate; a lathe dog. (b…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: machine, raising, guns, mortar, carriages.
Catadrome
noun · 78% connection
A machine for raising or lowering heavy weights.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: machine, raising, guns, mortar, carriages.
Chamber
noun · 78% connection
That part of the bore of a piece of ordnance which holds the charge, esp. when of different diameter from the rest of the bore; -- for…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: machine, raising, guns, mortar, carriages.
Coachdog
unknown · 78% connection
One of a breed of dogs trained to accompany carriages; the Dalmatian dog.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: machine, raising, guns, mortar, carriages.
Crane
noun · 78% connection
A machine for raising and lowering heavy weights, and, while holding them suspended, transporting them through a limited lateral dista…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: machine, raising, guns, mortar, carriages.
Erection
noun · 78% connection
The act of erecting, or raising upright; the act of constructing, as a building or a wall, or of fitting together the parts of, as a m…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: machine, raising, guns, mortar, carriages.
Excise
noun · 78% connection
In inland duty or impost operating as an indirect tax on the consumer, levied upon certain specified articles, as, tobacco, ale, spiri…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: machine, raising, guns, mortar, carriages.
Gin
noun · 78% connection
A machine for raising or moving heavy weights, consisting of a tripod formed of poles united at the top, with a windlass, pulleys, rop…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: machine, raising, guns, mortar, carriages.
Greaser
noun · 78% connection
One who, or that which, greases; specifically, a person employed to lubricate the working parts of machinery, engines, carriages, etc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: machine, raising, guns, mortar, carriages.
Gun
noun · 78% connection
A weapon which throws or propels a missile to a distance; any firearm or instrument for throwing projectiles by the explosion of gunpo…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: machine, raising, guns, mortar, carriages.
Hackneyman
noun · 78% connection
A man who lets horses and carriages for hire.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: machine, raising, guns, mortar, carriages.
