Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Nautical, the bolt which passes through the loop and the lugs of the carriage when a howitzer is secured in position.
- noun In a vehicle, a bolt with an ornamental head used to fasten the body-loop to the running-gear.
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Examples
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Nos. 1 and 2 clear the elevator; heave up the breech of the gun by the spar; Nos. 5 and 6 back the bed on the slide; run the field-carriage a little forward, so that its lugs come under the loop of the howitzer; lower the piece; put in the loop-bolt and elevator; hook on the drag-rope and ship the trail-handspike in its socket.
Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition. United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Ordnance
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