Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A slightly hollowed hardened steel disk set in the face of the sliding-block of the Krupp breech-mechanism to receive the direct force of the powder-gases.
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Examples
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She had even installed a small gas-plate for him, so that he could brew his morning and evening coffee.
Where the Blue Begins Christopher Morley 1923
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