Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A chest or box in which the fixed ammunition for field-cannon is packed. One ammunition-chest is carried on the limber of the gun-carriage, and three are carried on the caisson, one on the limber and two on the body.
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Examples
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Lieutenant Dabchick came with us in command, as soon as she was fully manned and armed, an ammunition-chest being lowered down with a supply of ` pills and pepper 'for the little nine-pounder boat-gun we carried in our bows; when, we sheered away from the ship's side and lay on our oars, and the second cutter hauled up alongside to receive her crew and equipment like ourselves.
Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy John B. [Illustrator] Greene
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Sound, the wadding from the guns having communicated with some powder in the ammunition-chest on the poop.
How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900 William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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When I came to him, "Ralph," said he, "go and look into the ammunition-chest.
In the Rocky Mountains A Tale of Adventure William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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When I came to him, "Ralph," said he, "go and look into the ammunition-chest.
In the Rocky Mountains William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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