Scottish. A bow-gun or prow-piece. Obsolete. rare.
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释义 | society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > naval weapons and equipment > [noun] > ship's guns collectively > gun in specific position (10) nosepiecea1614 Scottish. A bow-gun or prow-piece. Obsolete. rare. stern-piece1622 †(a) a gun mounted in the stern; (b) a flat piece of wood to which the side planks of a ship or boat are brought, so that it terminates the hull… chase-piece1626 = chase-gun n. rakera1640 A gun positioned so as to be is able to rake an enemy's vessel. Also in figurative context. Obsolete. rare. chase-gun1667 ‘such guns as are removed to the chase-ports ahead or astern, if not pivot-guns’ (Adm. Smyth). bow-chase1769 (see quots.). chaser1804 Nautical. A chase-gun (see chase, n.1 compounds 2): see bow-chaser n. at bow, n.3 compounds 3, stern-chaser, n. stern-chaser1815 A gun belonging to the stern-chase, n. (sense 2). top gun1816 A gun positioned or mounted in a ship's top (top, n.1 9a). Now historical. bow-chaser1836 |
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