The rammer then retires, the sponge is taken off, and the powder hoisted by tackle to the muzzle, whence the rammer pushes it home, and then does the same for the shot.
In the hurry of the moment, in separating the gun from the limbers, the rammer and picker of the cannon were left tied to the limber.
Perkins, having pulled off his bayonet, used his musket as a rammerand drove down the cartridge; and Jackson, using his former plan, again discharged her.
Breechings were loosed and gun-tackles unlashed, rammer and sponge laid out, and pike and pistol and cutlass placed where they would be handy when the time came to rush the enemy's decks.
I saw a French lad whip off his coat when a gunner called for a wad, and another, who had been a scavenger, snatch the rammer from Pearce's hands when he staggered with a grape-shot through his chest.
This rammer is stiff in all directions when extended.
The space occupied by this rammer in the rear of the gun is less than one foot, with a possible ramming stroke of fifteen feet.
The rammer being attached to the gun’s cradle or slide, moves with the gun in elevation and depression.
Defn: A child's gun; a tube and rammer for shooting pellets, with a popping noise, by compression of air.
There was nothing to gain by letting his two passengers suspect that during the past few minutes their pilot, the owner of Rammer Spacelines, had been a bare step away from plain and fancy gibbering.
Maulbow himself was as aloof and taciturn a client as Rammer Spacelines ever had picked up.
Schmitz Illustrated by Brotman Gefty Rammer came along the narrow passages between the Silver Queen's control compartment and the staterooms, trying to exchange the haggard look on his face for one of competent self-assurance.
Fifteen minutes later, Gefty Rammer was climbing down to the storage deck in the Queen's broad stern, the newly fashioned set of vault keys clanking heavily in his coat pocket.
The men on the rammer drew it out an arm's length and rammed the cartridge with a single stroke.
With the ball in the bore, both men again manned the rammer to force the shot home and delivered a final single-stroke ram.
The gunner cleans the piece carefully with a dry rammer, and in pulling out the said rammer gives a dab or two to the mouth of the piece to remove any dirt adhering.
As a precaution against faulty or double loading, marks on the rammer handle showed the loaders when the different parts of the charge were properly seated.
On the right of the gun a sponge and a rammer are laid on a prop, about 6 feet away from the carriage.
Instantly dropping her pail, Mollie seized therammer and, stationing herself by the gun, performed her husband's duty with skill and courage all through the battle.
When they reach the highest point the flag is put up, and this is usually made on the spot, of a red silk handkerchief, one corner run through the rammer of a Springfield rifle.
If the plaster sticks to the end of the rammer, it shows, either that you have used the plaster too wet, or have not turned the rammer round a sufficient number of times.
The fuse on the top star is best driven in with a short solid rammer and mallet, as it is difficult to jolt the long rammer in so small a space.
Let the composition be put in, very little at a time, and well driven with a solid rammer and mallet.
When a number are ready, press them into the pill-boxes, with a rammer that fits loosely.
I suspect the presence of some of that sort of experience in the rammer described in your book, p.
With a strong wooden mould and a good rammer a small-holder may easily build his own pigsty, his own chicken house, and all the small outbuildings he requires, if not indeed add an extra room to his house.
I am very interested to hear that you are proposing to use an hydraulic rammer for making blocks.
The man with the rammer dropped to the earth and the rammer fell beside him.
Just then Pat grabbed the rammer to the gun and went for the Johnnie in true Irish style, saying as he brought the rammer down upon his enemy: 'I can whip the bist man in your measly gang.
The rammer and sponger lay by the side of the small field-piece.
The parrot replaced the rammer by the side of the sponger, and waited for further orders, standing erect close to the rear of the gun.
Suddenly all went black before him--the rammer dropped from his nerveless hand, and he fell beside his gun.
The rammer was withdrawn, another man manipulated a handle, and two cream-coloured, sausage-shaped bundles with red ends rolled into the space just vacated by the projectile.
Instantly a clattering hydraulic chain rammer uncoiled itself like a snake, and an enormous shell weighing three-quarters of a ton was pushed bodily out of the loading-tray to vanish into the open breech of the gun with a smack and a thud.
He now rammed the bullet home, and withdrawing his rammer walked over to the cliff beside which the teamster was cowering.
He pulled off the woolen rag he had twisted around the head of the rammer for a swab, wiped the rammer clean and bright and dropped it into the gun.
The rammer must be of a size, proportionate to the rocket, and of the same diameter, as the top of the bore intended, and continue of that thickness, a little longer than the depth of the bore required.
The wooden rammer may be struck with metal; but when the rammeris of copper or brass, wooden mallets must be always employed.
When the rocket is fixed in the box, it must be pushed forward against the rammer, and, when the scoop of the rammer is full, draw the box back, and knock out the composition.
In the end of this rammer is a hole to fit over the piercer.
The rammer must be frequently taken out, and struck, so as to disengage any of the composition, which may adhere to it.
The line marked on this rammer, as will be explained hereafter, when it appears at the top of the case, indicates that a second rammer must be used.
The rocket is confined in a box, and, by means of a wheel, which is made to turn a second one, an auger rammer is put in motion.
The piercer, accompanying a greater part of the bore of the case, would cause the rammer to rise too high; so that the pressure of it would not be so great on the composition, nor would it be driven equally.
In the end of this rammer must be a hole to fit over the piercer.
For this end we must have a small mallet, and a rammer of brass, of a smaller diameter than the form.
The deflector I is next placed in position on the inner mold and the concrete is forced down with an ironrammer between the two molds, so as to fill completely the annular space.
A broad faced rammer should be used for tamping wet concrete, or a wooden roller covered with sheet steel, weighing about 250 lbs.
I saw some men tryin' to cross the crick there," replied Jim, pointing with his rammer in the direction of the opposite bank.
I wasn't paying any attention to you," Alf's fine tenor replied, as his rammer rang in his barrel.
He wants to marry me as a maiden, but whether he would have me were I a hand-rammer is a question, so I won't have my name changed.
A bullet killed him at his post and Molly, seizing his rammer as it fell, sprang to take his place.
O, the Guerrière so bold On the foaming ocean rolled, Commanded by Dacres the grandee O; For the choice of British crew That a rammer ever drew Could beat the Frenchmen two to one quite handy O.
How the boarders, with sponge and rammer And their captains, with cord and hammer, Kept every muzzle ablaze.
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