| 单词 | very pistol |
| 释义 | > as lemmasVery pistol Used attributively 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. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military organization > signals > [noun] > light signal Very light1907 fairy light1916 pistol flare1916 pistol light1916 society > communication > indication > signalling > visual signalling > luminous signals > [noun] > pyrotechnic signals blue light1761 fire shell1765 Indian light1787 Bengal light1791 Indian fire1831 flare-up light1858 flare1883 Very1907 fairy light1916 Aldis lamp1917 Aldis1918 Bengal fire1941 flame float1942 Bengal flash1946 1907 Jrnl. Mil. Service Inst. U.S. 41 368 In connection with night signaling it may be well here to mention the Very system,..found serviceable in sea-coast signaling. 1915 D. O. Barnett Let. 17 Mar. in In Happy Memory 95 When the ‘Very’ pistol came, I fired a rocket. 1917 R. Nichols in E. B. Osborn Nurse in Arms 49 Before he was aware The ‘Verey’ light had risen..on the air It hung glistering. 1920 Blackwood's Mag. June 747/2 Very flares were continually being fired into the air to light up dark corners. 1928 E. Blunden 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. 1930 C. R. Samson Fights & Flights 177 My sole equipment consisted of an electric torch..and a Verey-light pistol. 1959 Chambers'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. 1981 J. B. Hilton Playground of Death ii. 15 What we were really playing at was War... A Roman candle..was a Very light. < as lemmas |
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