- A
touch hole, also
known as a
cannon vent, is a
small hole at the rear (breech)
portion of the
barrel of a
muzzleloading gun or cannon. The hole provides...
- and the
touchhole primed with powder, the
burning tip of the
match was
positioned so that the lock
would bring it into
contact with the
touchhole. To fire...
- sparks,
which ignite gunpowder in a pan,
which flashes through a
small touchhole to
ignite the main
charge in the firearm's barrel. The
pyrite is clamped...
-
headless nails to "spike" the guns by
hammering these nails into the
touchhole near the
breech of the cannon,
thereby rendering it
useless on the battlefield...
-
concepts into the
Belton flintlock,
which used a
sliding lock with
multiple touchholes to
ignite separated sets of
fused charges,
allowing multiple shots per...
- sparks,
which ignite gunpowder in a pan,
which flashes through a
small touchhole to
ignite the main
charge in the firearm's barrel. The
pyrite is clamped...
- the
charge to burn effectively. When the
cannon was
fired through the
touchhole,
turbulence from the
initial surface combustion caused the rest of the...
-
either capture enemy artillery or
render them
useless by
plugging the
touchholes with iron spikes.
Heavier cavalry such as cuir****iers, dragoons, and carabiniers...
- the
flash p****es
through a
small hole in the
barrel (called a vent or
touchhole) that
leads to the
combustion chamber where it
ignites the main powder...
- prime, as when one
primes a musket, from O. Fr. amorce,
powder for the
touchhole (Cotgrave), and the
other by to bite (Lat. mordere),
hence "to indulge...
