单词 | morsing powder |
释义 | > as lemmasmorsing powder The action of priming (a gun). Usually attributive, esp. in morsing-horn, morsing powder. morsing-hole n. a touch hole.In quot. 1629, probably used in concrete sense ‘priming-powder’. ΚΠ 1552 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. I. 131 Hagbutteris, furnischit with powldir flask, morsing hornis, and all uthair geir. 1568 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xlvii. 54 Ȝe want ȝor morsing powder. 1607 Edinb. Test. XLIII. f. 202, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue (at cited word) Ane pewder horne ane morsing flaskis. 1629 Z. Boyd Last Battell Soule I. 374 They..cry, Peace, peace, euen while God is putting the fierie lunt into the mosine of their sudden destruction. 1789 D. Davidson Thoughts Seasons 26 An', frae the flake..He whips the carabine.—The motion-hole Frae rust unspik'd..Adown the bank he hastens. 1805 W. Scott Lay of Last Minstrel iv. xv. 107 Buff coats, all frounced and 'broidered o'er, And morsing-horns and scarfs they wore. 1824 J. Mactaggart Sc. Gallovidian Encycl. Moshin-hole, the touch-hole of a piece of ordnance; ‘pike the moshin-hole’..means, to clean out the touch-hole. 1828 D. M. Moir Life Mansie Wauch xii. 190 The piker for clearing the motion-hole. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 485 Morsing powder, an old term for priming powder. < as lemmas |
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