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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. In gunnery, a brass scale used in aiming, attached to the barrel of a gun, near the breech, just behind the breech-ring, and giving the series of quarter-angles for a radius equal to the distance from the muzzle-sight to the axis about which the scale turns. The pendulum-hausse is so constructed as to retain a vertical position when the wheels of the gun-carriage are not on a level.
  2. n. The nut of a violin-bow.

Wiktionary

  1. n. military, historical A kind of graduated breech sight for a small arm or cannon.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Gun.) A kind of graduated breech sight for a small arm, or a cannon.

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  1. French (Wiktionary)

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  • hernesheir In heraldry, used to describe a chevron and fesse that are placed higher than ordinary. Dec 6, 2012

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