| 单词 | within the metal |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswithin the metal ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > production and development of arms > [noun] > manufacture of firearms and ammunition > materials metal1591 skelp1811 stub-twist1843 coil1859 gun-iron1881 1591 T. Digges L. Digges's Geom. Pract. Treatize: Pantometria (rev. ed.) 177 A marke is said to lye within the metall of the Peece, when the Peece beeing directed not by the Axis of the Soule, but by the Cornice or vpmost ring of her head and Coyle is able to reach the marke. 1647 N. Nye Art of Gunnery i. 40 If the Piece lye point-blanck, or under mettal. 1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. v. xi. 46 A Gunner ought..to proportion his Charge according to the thinnest side of the Metal. 1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. v. xii. 68 The difference of Shooting by the Metal, and by a Dispert. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xviii. 140/2 She lies ouer mettle, when the mouth is higher then the breech. She lies right with her mettle, that is she lies point blank, or streight. 1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Metal, a word frequently used about a Piece of Ordnance, or Great Gun: The Outside or Surface of her is called, the Superficies of her Metals: When the Mouth of a Great Gun lies lower than her Breech, they say, She lies under Metal. 1778 W. Whiting Let. 16 Nov. in E. G. Lengel Papers G. Washington (Revolutionary War Series) (2008) XVIII. 256 The heaviest Metal that has been Cast at this Furnace is an Eighteen pounder proper for a Ship Cannon. 1859 F. A. Griffiths Artillerist's Man. (1862) 52 The Line of metal is an imaginary line drawn along the surface of the metal between the two sights. < as lemmas |
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