A log slipped, a wheel went down, gun and caisson tilted—artillery and infantry surged to the aid of the endangered piece.
Doggedly it poured its fire, but a gun was disabled, a caisson exploded, horses and men dead or frightfully hurt.
Gun and wheel and caisson were all plastered with mud, not an inch of bright metal showing.
Caisson struck you, knocked you into the bayou, y’ know!
A second log slipped, the wheel beneath the caisson went down, the loaded metal chest jerked forward, striking forehead and shoulder of one of the aiding infantrymen.
Amid ejaculations, oaths, shouted orders, guns and caisson were righted, the horses urged forward, the piece drawn clear of the bayou.
The toppling caisson and the bayou had failed to give Edward Cary his.
A caisson was exploded, but the battery unlimbered and with grape and canister poured volley after volley so fast into the advancing troops that they halted, wavered, and then broke in retreat.
This promising youngster was one day seated on a caisson or ammunition waggon full of shells, &c.
The caisson works on the same principle, except that the air in the great boxlike chamber is highly compressed by powerful pumps and keeps the water and river ooze out altogether.
The bridge across the Hudson at Poughkeepsie was built on a crib or caisson open at the top and sunk by means of a dredge operated from above taking out the material from the inside.
Caisson after caisson had been blown up by the explosion of shells striking them.
But I perceive that the ceiling is arranged in caissons; and in a central caisson I discover a very curious painting-a foreshortened Tortoise, gazing down at me.
And the ceiling itself must once have been a marvel; all beamed in caissons, each caisson containing, upon a gold ground, the painted figure of a flying bird.
Straits were like opening the caisson gates to a graving-dock!
Slowly she gathered way, and to the clatter of the dockyard capstans as the slack of the hawsers was taken in, her forty-foot curved stem passed the black caisson gates.
The caisson gates ground to with almost indecent haste behind her, as some castle portcullis might do as the last prisoner was dragged through.
Gunner number three was kneeling over the fuse setter behind the caisson which stood wheel to wheel with the gun carriage.
The brakes grated on the caisson wheels as we took the steep down-grade.
The cannoneers, muffled in great coats, hung on the caisson seats and chided the drivers.
One of your troubles has been the weight of batteries and by this air caisson arrangement weight won't cut any figure under water.
And if I can't make a little caisson that'll hold a hundred pounds of air for ten or twelve hours I'll give up diving and drive a taxi.
The first caisson was poured early in September, and the last about the beginning of October.
The nextcaisson was then towed out, set against the floating spacer, and sunk in position.
The caisson was knocked slightly out of alignment, and a settlement toward the west was observable.
This talisman opened all doors, even those in the despatching-caisson at the foot of the tower, where they were delivering the sorted Continental mail.
From the despatching-caisson I was conducted by a courteous and wonderfully learned official Mr. L.
One looks down over the coamings three hundred feet to the despatching-caisson whence voices boom upward.
A caisson burst close by, and I heard the howl of dying wretches, as the fires flashed like meteors.
Here a caisson blew up, tearing the horses to pieces, and whirling a cannoneer among the clouds.
The Emperor consequently gave orders that the horses should be impressed, for he estimated the loss of a single cannon or caisson as irreparable.
The three-compartment wicker shell-containers in which field-gun shells are carried from caisson to gun are as carefully and neatly made as an expensive tea-basket.
No limbers or caissons had been with the guns, but a caisson had been placed in a field about two hundred yards behind, and men ran up and down across the field carrying ammunition in wicker baskets, each of which holds three shells.
The caissons are usually in less numbers than the guns, there being two caissons behind four guns, or one caisson behind two guns.
A caisson is specially useful in cases where there may be a head of water on either side, as then it takes the place of two pairs of gates pointing in opposite directions, or for closing an entrance against a current.
The caisson is furnished with an air chamber to give it flotation, which is adjusted by ballast according to the depth of water.
The caisson itself also serves as a very strong movable bridge, and therefore is often preferred at dockyards to dock gates.
A sliding or rolling caisson is occasionally placed across each end of a lock in place of a pair of dock gates, being Caissons drawn back into a recess at the side for opening docks.
And perhaps the very fact of their being in the company of the obliging French caisson driver might cause the Uhlans to consider them foes.
Still, in times to come, they would often delight to recall their adventure of the road and the river, and wonder what became of the French caisson driver who blew up his ammunition wagon rather than yield his charge to the foe.
While they were racing toward the spot the determined Frenchman was continuing to carry the contents of the abandoned caisson toward the water.
At the most, they would find themselves no worse off than before they were taken aboard the caisson by the obliging driver.
The driver of the destroyed caisson had by this time managed to crawl out of the water.
Far in the rear he had sighted a caissonon which there was but a lone Frenchman.
Had they been delayed just that length of time it must have blown caisson and all aboard into atoms; for, of course, the ammunition in the chest would also have exploded.
Even the driver knew that he could not hope to save his caisson with its contents, and, like the discreet soldier that he was, he immediately commenced to throw the ammunition into the stream.
The desperate driver had fired his fuse and blown up the caisson with its contents.
The excited Frenchman at the caissonhad changed his mind evidently.
Thad and Bumpus were given seats on one caisson while the other boys found room on a second.
The horses drawing this caisson did not seem capable of equalling the speed displayed by the other animals.
He did not need any one to tell him that it was a fuse the driver handled, and that he meant to lay a trap so as to blow up the caisson with its valuable contents before suffering it to fall into the hands of the enemy.
In the evening, we blew up a caisson of a rebel battery, which rode up at full speed, trying to get in action, causing them to withdraw immediately.
The action was kept up until a rebel caisson was blown up, whereon firing ceased.
Our battery carried their wounded off, but left one caisson behind, a lynch-pin giving way.
Battery A, Fourth regulars, had a caisson blown up, one man killed and four wounded.
Battery B, lost a caisson and two men taken prisoners, coming from Thoroughfare Gap.
Caisson is also a vessel fitted with valves, to act instead of gates for a dry dock.
We made good embrasures, thickened the works in our front and dug trenches for our caisson wheels close behind works, so that axles lay on the ground.
We fired rapidly and so did the rifle battery, but directly a shell came through number 3 embrasure, killed Gurley, standing erect with thumb on vent, plunged into caisson just behind and exploded all three chests thereon.
The pin which coupled the piece proper to the caissonwas removed, and there she stood in position on her two wheels, some distance ahead of the caisson, in which the cartridges were kept.
On the caisson of one of these cannon, erect, majestically leaning on a pike-staff from which floated the tricolor, stood a woman of massive stature, a red kerchief half concealing the heavy tresses which fell down upon her shoulders.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "caisson" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: case; compact; file
