She was cleared for action, while a couple of jagged holes through her foremost funnel and a dismounted quick-firer flung across her deck were evidences that she had participated in a recent "scrap".
Jeter tripped the rapid firer and held it for half a minute, during which time three hundred projectiles, eight inches long by two inches in diameter, were poured into the invisible surface.
Jeter had to stop the rapid firer because its base, the plane, was now so firmly fixed that the recoil might kick the gun out of its mount.
The only one by which they could fire outside the plane--due to the necessity of keeping the cabin closed to retain oxygen--was the rapid firer on the wing.
Each boat carried a quick-firer in the bows and a Maxim, in addition to stores sufficient to last a week or ten days.
Turning out the men who remained he had the quick-firer ammunition removed to the boats.
Thank heavens it was not the spurt of a quick-firer but a steady white flare, to signify that the ship was in readiness to receive the message.
Their quick firer and one-pound Maxim were also doing so.
Many shots have been wasted when the point of aim has been moved to what the firer thought was the necessary change on the target, instead of changing the sights according to the table on page 191.
In the kneeling position the firer may kneel on either knee.
The gun-layer of the quick-firer obeyed instantly.
With a lurid red flash that completely eclipsed the wan moonlight, her after quick-firer let rip.
The deck was little more than a litter of torn and riddled steelwork, but conspicuous among the debris was the muzzle of a dismounted quick-firer that tilted at an acute angle to the sky.
Acrid-smelling fumes swept down upon Meredith as he assisted the last member of the after quick-firer to load and train the weapon.
With an effort Meredith freed his legs, and by the aid of the shoulder-piece of the now silent after quick-firer regained his feet.
And these men, volunteers all, had been banded together under the White Ensign to do their level best to make things mighty unpleasant for Fritz by means of a quick-firer and an assortment of particularly obnoxious depth-charges.
Assuming that the Huns would turn a quick-firer upon the lighter, where would they aim?
The problem of combining the maximum of fire power with the maximum of control over the individual firer was not fully solved until 1740, but the necessity of attempting the problem was realised from the first.
The firer of the last shot, he reasoned, imagined that with the murder of the first sentry, he had only one man to deal with, and now he was lying motionless on the ballast.
The front rapid-firer was fixed between the two supporting planes, the barrel next to the motor and parallel with it.
One man was shot dead close to the wall, when his companion, without a second's pause, mounted the wall, and pistolled the firerof the shot.
It was a gun-barrel taking aim down at me, the firer jammed so close to the tree-stem as to look like part of it.
As he reached the bridge, the Lieutenant leant over the rail towards the gunner in charge of the quick-firer on the forecastle.
Chard smiled grimly and ordered another to be opened; it contained a small quick-firer in pieces.
Plant one in her conning tower," shouted Lawless to the chief gunner, who stood by the quick-firer just below the bridge.
The quick-firer just below the bridge led off, but before the other guns had a chance to follow suit a heavy bank of fog rolled up and obliterated the steamer as completely as though a curtain had been lowered.
There was quick-firer turned right down on the boat," said Stickine dryly.
It was obvious that the attempt to recapture the quick-firer must be made early for other reasons.
As soon as Hythe gained the place where the quick-firer stood he realized that it was impossible to remove it.
Of the men serving the quick-firer only one remained--the gun-layer.
Slight defects in the mounting of the stern-chaser quick-firer had appeared almost as soon as the destroyer left the Firth of Forth, and the armourer's crew were hard at work rectifying the damage.
After a miner has undercut the coal, the shot-firer comes.
When the whole face is undercut and spragged, the shot-firer is summoned.
Presently the quick-firer barked, and a projectile struck the water about a hundred yards from the starboard side of the pursued vessel.
Trefusis and his chum were not allowed for'ard, where the quick-firer was already in position for opening fire.
One shot from the Ottoman quick-firer would send the submarine to the bottom like a stone.
On the other hand, the patrol-boat was nothing more than an old iron tug, on which a light quick-firer had been mounted.
With his own hands, the mate sighted the quick-firer on the bridge and then nodded to the boatswain, who was also chief gunner.
Smith left the bridge, and, mounting the foc'sle, took the tarpaulin cover off the quick-firer which was mounted there.
He came to an open space, and as he reached its edge saw four men with a quick-firer hurrying frantically across the open to the trees on the far side.
Once they get that quick-firer posted, it's all up with our lads down below.
At the same time Horan staggered back off the parapet, and the quick-firer ceased firing.
A quick firer to enfilade the trench, and snipers for the beach.
As it tore along, its obliquely-pointed quick-firer spat venomously at the British seaplanes until a bomb, falling quite a hundred feet from the car, tore a deep hole in the roadway.
Immediately the British guns were silent, contemptuous of the erratic efforts of a small quick-firer that alone was capable of hurling defiance from the doomed ship.
The shoulder-piece of the quick-firer is awfully in the way.
He dare not shell the trawler for fear of hitting his subordinate, until he drew ahead sufficiently to enable her quick-firer to plank a shell for'ard and between wind and water.
They mostly watched to see who was the best firer on the line.
Did the firerof the weapon ever go down personally to inspect the target?
The ball thrown perpendicularly is of course the easiest to hit, but if it fall in front of the tosser two or three feet, the firer is less liable to be disturbed.
If the tosser stand with his face to the firer he is apt to divert his attention from the ball, which is in part avoided by turning his side, and is also the proper position for the delivery of the drop and other shots.
Fifteen feet of elevation is sufficient, a higher ball being really easier to hit, because the firer is more under it.
The bell should not be thrown so as to fall at a greater distance than twenty-five feet, and the firer should stand right beside or just behind the trap.
A great deal of time is usually lost by the firer squirming around trying to get into a comfortable position.
By using this system, the firer does not know the exact instant the gun is to go off and the common faults, namely, flinching and jerking the trigger are unconsciously avoided.
To obtain satisfactory results thefirer must perform correctly five essential things, namely: 1.
Notice that the fireris sitting well down on the right leg.
The firer must be able to hold the rifle steadily in the three positions, kneeling, sitting.
Hence, the eye must be trained unless the firer has at all times a mental picture of how the sights and the bull's-eye look when properly aligned.
It was not an exhibition of which a Fearless Firer might have been proud, nor did the screams of laughter greeting it serve to palliate his anger.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "firer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: abettor; gadfly; inspirer; mover; pleader; prompter; spark; tempter
