windage

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They go forth clean and the windage is much reduced Is the range improved At fourteen hundred metres I put two elongated balls into an oak so deeply that I could not dig them out with my knife.

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  1. noun The effect of wind on the course of a projectile.
  2. noun The point or degree at which the wind gauge or sight of a rifle or gun must be set to compensate for the effect of the wind.
  3. noun The difference in a given firearm between the diameter of the projectile fired and the diameter of the bore of the firearm.
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  • Allowing for windage, there was a family-minded female sharpfang down in the marsh about six hundred trots off to his left. —  Maverick, Isaac Asimov's Robots And Aliens -- Book 5
  • It gives you 45 inches of elevation adjustment, 30 inches of windage -- in quarter-minute clicks.
  • Watch out for windage: Another reason to slow way down in heavy weather is the increased windage from a pontoon's large bimini top. —  Sail-World.com USA Latest News
  • I got very similar results first time I tried this load at 100 in a different rifle: first two low, the others pretty tight windage-wise but strung vertically. —  Irons in the Fire
  • He reduced the length and weight of the pieces, as well as the charge and the windage (the difference between the diameters of shot and bore); he built carriages so that many parts were interchangeable, and made soldiers out of the drivers. —  Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America
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