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- noun Plural form of
touchhole .
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Examples
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Jones and his men promptly spiked all thirty-six guns of the battery, driving heavy nails into their touchholes so the cannon could not be fired.
John Paul Jones 9781451603996 2003
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Jones and his men promptly spiked all thirty-six guns of the battery, driving heavy nails into their touchholes so the cannon could not be fired.
John Paul Jones 9781451603996 2003
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There were guns with barrels disguised as crouching tigers, and guns inscribed with flowing Arabic letters, and guns supplied from France, some still with the ancient Bourbon cipher incised close to their touchholes.
Sharpe's Tiger Cornwell, Bernard 1997
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The sparks ignited the powder in the pans, there was a pause as the fire fizzed through the seven hundred touchholes, then an almighty crackling roar as the heavy muskets flamed.
Sharpe's Tiger Cornwell, Bernard 1997
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Some guns shot their vents, leaving a gaping hole where their touchholes had been, while others broke their carriages, and one twelve-pounder exploded as an air bubble in its cast barrel finally gave way.
Sharpe's Waterloo Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 1990
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We set to work to pick out our touchholes and clean our rifles, knowing that we might not have time later, and that a single miss-fire might cost us all our lives.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 Various
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_Detroit_, who had to discharge the great guns by flashing pistols at the touchholes, and yet made such a terribly effective defence.
The Naval War of 1812 Or the History of the United States Navy during the Last War with Great Britain to Which Is Appended an Account of the Battle of New Orleans Theodore Roosevelt 1888
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Barclay fought the _Detroit_ exceedingly well, her guns being most excellently aimed, though they actually had to be discharged by flashing pistols at the touchholes, so deficient was the ship's equipment.
The Naval War of 1812 Or the History of the United States Navy during the Last War with Great Britain to Which Is Appended an Account of the Battle of New Orleans Theodore Roosevelt 1888
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_Ticonderoga_ had to fire her guns by means of pistols flashed at the touchholes (like Barclay on Lake Erie).
The Naval War of 1812 Or the History of the United States Navy during the Last War with Great Britain to Which Is Appended an Account of the Battle of New Orleans Theodore Roosevelt 1888
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When we get there we can make our way among them, keeping on the ground so that the sentry cannot see us against the sky; and then with a sponge full of water we can give a squeeze on each of the touchholes, so there would be no chance of their going off till the charges were drawn.
In Times of Peril 1867
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