haussen.
/həʊs/ A kind of breech-sight for a cannon.
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dispart1578
telescopic sight1674
plain sight1686
aim-frontlet1745
hausse1787
foresight1806
gloaming sight1817
night-sight1822
bead1831
leaf1832
backsight1847
globe sight1847
pendulum hausse1850
hindsight1851
tangent scale1859
tangent1861
tangent backsight1862
training pendulum1862
training level1863
peep sight1866
dispart-sight1867
notch sight1867
buck-horn1877
orthoptic1881
aperturea1884
pinball-sighta1884
dispart patch1884
sight bar1884
flap-sight1887
barley-corn1896
ring sight1901
riflescope1902
spotting scope1904
tangent sight1908
Aldis sight1918
wind-sight1923
scope sight1934
gyro-sight1942
1787 J. Jeffray MS. Th. on Guns addr. to Dk. Richm. I have never seen this Hausse de culasse.
1818 Descr. Sights for Navy proposed by Congreve 34 Neither the Hausse nor any other sort of dispart.
a1859 Ordnance Man. U.S. 112 Pendulum Hausse or tangent scale.
1887 Rep. Chief Ordnance U.S. 8 Pendulum Hausses: 3 inch gun.
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