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Very n.2|ˈvɛrɪ, ˈvɪərɪ|
Also (erron.) Verey, Vérey.
The name of Edward W. Very (1847–1910), U.S. naval officer, used attrib. with reference to a coloured pyrotechnic flare projected from a special pistol for signalling or temporarily illuminating an area; as Very light, Very pistol, etc.
1907Jrnl. Mil. Service Inst. U.S. XLI. 368 In connection with night signaling it may be well here to mention the Very system,..found serviceable in sea-coast signaling. 1915D. O. Barnett Let. 17 Mar. 95 When the ‘Very’ pistol came, I fired a rocket. 1917R. Nichols in E. B. Osborn Nurse in Arms 49 Before he was aware The ‘Verey’ light had risen..on the air It hung glistering. 1920Blackw. Mag. June 747/2 Very flares were continually being fired into the air to light up dark corners. 1928Blunden Undertones of War ii. 16 Another officer..showed me..how to fire a flare... He had with him a cumbrous brass gun, called a duck-gun; from this he fired a Vérey cartridge. 1930C. R. Samson Fights & Flights 177 My sole equipment consisted of an electric torch..and a Verey-light pistol. 1959Chambers's Encycl. XI. 390/1 The Very pistol, a short-barrelled smooth-bore weapon of 1-in. or 1½ in. calibre, firing a cartridge which is in effect a short roman candle throwing up a single star, is the most generally used pyrotechnic signal. 1976‘A. York’ Dark Passage xiii. 162 He..found a Very pistol..and fired. The glowing orange ball arced over his head, and then hung, perhaps a hundred feet above the yacht. 1981J. B. Hilton Playground of Death ii. 15 What we were really playing at was War... A Roman candle..was a Very light. |