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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: vessel, light, draught, carrying, guns.
Apparel
noun · 78% connection
The furniture of a ship, as masts, sails, rigging, anchors, guns, etc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: vessel, light, draught, carrying, guns.
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: vessel, light, draught, carrying, guns.
Barbette
noun · 78% connection
A mound of earth or a platform in a fortification, on which guns are mounted to fire over the parapet.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: vessel, light, draught, carrying, guns.
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: vessel, light, draught, carrying, guns.
Blast
noun · 78% connection
The exhaust steam from and engine, driving a column of air out of a boiler chimney, and thus creating an intense draught through the f…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: vessel, light, draught, carrying, guns.
Bricole
noun · 78% connection
A kind of traces with hooks and rings, with which men drag and maneuver guns where horses can not be used.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: vessel, light, draught, carrying, guns.
Broadside
noun · 78% connection
A discharge of or from all the guns on one side of a ship, at the same time.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: vessel, light, draught, carrying, guns.
Camel
noun · 78% connection
A water-tight structure (as a large box or boxes) used to assist a vessel in passing over a shoal or bar or in navigating shallow wate…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: vessel, light, draught, carrying, guns.
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: vessel, light, draught, carrying, guns.
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: vessel, light, draught, carrying, guns.
Corvette
noun · 78% connection
A war vessel, ranking next below a frigate, and having usually only one tier of guns; -- called in the United States navy a sloop of w…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: vessel, light, draught, carrying, guns.
Draught
adjective · 78% connection
Used for drawing vehicles, loads, etc.; as, a draught beast; draught hooks.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: vessel, light, draught, carrying, guns.
Fluorescence
noun · 78% connection
That property which some transparent bodies have of producing at their surface, or within their substance, light different in color fr…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: vessel, light, draught, carrying, guns.
Frigate
noun · 78% connection
Originally, a vessel of the Mediterranean propelled by sails and by oars. The French, about 1650, transferred the name to larger vesse…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: vessel, light, draught, carrying, guns.
Galiot
noun · 78% connection
A strong, light-draft, Dutch merchant vessel, carrying a mainmast and a mizzenmast, and a large gaff mainsail.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: vessel, light, draught, carrying, guns.
Galleass
noun · 78% connection
A large galley, having some features of the galleon, as broadside guns; esp., such a vessel used by the southern nations of Europe in…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: vessel, light, draught, carrying, guns.
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: vessel, light, draught, carrying, guns.
