http://www.wordnik.com/lists/the-exercise-of-the-great-guns-in-our-navy-is-as-follows.xml from Falconer's New Universal Dictionary of the Marine, 1815 edition; ed. William Burney (London: Chatham Publishing, 2006), 141–142. <br /> <br />"Upon beating <a href="/words/to arms">to arms</a> (every person having immediately repaired to his <a href="/words/quarters">quarters</a>), the <a href="/words/midshipman">midshipman</a>, commanding a number of guns, is to see that they are not without every necessary article, as (at every gun) a <a href="/words/sponge">sponge</a>, <a href="/words/powder-horn">powder-horn</a>, with its <a href="/words/priming wire">priming wire</a>s, and a sufficient quantity of <a href="/words/powder">powder</a>, <a href="/words/shot">shot</a>, <a href="/words/crow">crow</a>, <a href="/words/handspike">handspike</a>, <a href="/words/bed">bed</a>, <a href="/words/quoin">quoin</a>, <a href="/words/train-tackle">train-tackle</a> &c. sending, without delay, for a supply of any thing that may be missing; and, for the greater certainty of not overlooking any <a href="/words/deficiency">deficiency</a>, he is to give strict orders to every <a href="/words/captain">captain</a> {gun captain} under him, to make the like examination at his <a href="/words/respective">respective</a> gun, and to take care that every <a href="/words/requisite">requisite</a> is in a <a href="/words/serviceable">serviceable</a> condition, which he is to report []accordingly. And (besides the other advantages of this <a href="/words/regulation">regulation</a>) for the still more certain and <a href="/words/speedy">speedy</a> <a href="/words/account">account</a> being taken upon these occasions, the midshipman is to give each man his charge at quarters (as expressed in the form of the monthly report) who is to search for his particular <a href="/words/implements">implements</a>, and, not finding them, is immediately to <a href="/words/acquaint">acquaint</a> his captain, that, upon his report to the midshipman, they may be replaced. <br /> <br />"The man who takes care of the <a href="/words/powder">powder</a>, is to place himself on the <a href="/words/opposite">opposite</a> side of the deck from that where we <a href="/words/engage">engage</a>, except when fighting on both sides at once, when he is to be <a href="/words/amidships">amidships</a>. He is not to <a href="/words/suffer">suffer</a> any other man to take a <a href="/words/cartridge">cartridge</a> from him, but he who is <a href="/words/appointed">appointed</a> to serve the gun with that article, either in time of a real <a href="/words/engagement">engagement</a>, or at <a href="/words/exercise">exercise</a>. <br /> <br />"<a href="/words/Lantern">Lantern</a>s are not to be brought to quarters in the night, until the midshipman gives his orders for so doing to the person he charges with that article. Every thing being in its place, and not the least lumber in the way of the guns, the exercise begins with, {...}" http://www.wordnik.com http://www.wordnik.com/words/1st silence Fri, 10 Oct 2008 02:03:51 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/words/1st silence http://www.wordnik.com/words/2d cast loose your guns Fri, 10 Oct 2008 02:03:46 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/words/2d cast loose your guns http://www.wordnik.com/words/3rd level your guns Fri, 10 Oct 2008 02:03:41 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/words/3rd level your guns http://www.wordnik.com/words/4th take out your tompions Fri, 10 Oct 2008 02:03:33 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/words/4th take out your tompions http://www.wordnik.com/words/5th run out your guns Fri, 10 Oct 2008 02:03:18 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/words/5th run out your guns http://www.wordnik.com/words/6th prime Fri, 10 Oct 2008 02:03:13 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/words/6th prime http://www.wordnik.com/words/7th point your guns Fri, 10 Oct 2008 02:03:10 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/words/7th point your guns http://www.wordnik.com/words/8th fire Fri, 10 Oct 2008 02:03:03 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/words/8th fire http://www.wordnik.com/words/9th worm and sponge your guns Fri, 10 Oct 2008 02:02:58 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/words/9th worm and sponge your guns http://www.wordnik.com/words/10th load with cartridge Fri, 10 Oct 2008 02:02:50 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/words/10th load with cartridge http://www.wordnik.com/words/11th load with shot Fri, 10 Oct 2008 02:02:45 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/words/11th load with shot http://www.wordnik.com/words/12th ram home shot and wad Fri, 10 Oct 2008 02:02:30 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/words/12th ram home shot and wad http://www.wordnik.com/words/13th put in your tompions Fri, 10 Oct 2008 02:02:23 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/words/13th put in your tompions http://www.wordnik.com/words/14th house your guns Fri, 10 Oct 2008 02:02:17 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/words/14th house your guns http://www.wordnik.com/words/15th secure your guns Fri, 10 Oct 2008 02:02:08 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/words/15th secure your guns