Shell or shotmen provide a sufficient supply of selvagee and six junk-wads, and supply the racks around the hatchways with shot from the lockers as required.
The grommet thus formed is marled like a selvagee strap, and a section of about an inch is taken out of it, in order to make the wad, when swelled by dampness, enter the bore of the gun readily.
No wad is required over a shell, but a selvagee wad may be used in heavy rolling.
A part--half or a third--of a selvagee wad, is equally efficient in holding the shot in place.
Selvagee wads are made by the wad-machine at the Navy Yards.
The face of the rammer is hollowed, so as to embrace the front of the ball and press the selvagee wad home in its place.
For all chambered guns except those of the Dahlgren pattern, the rammers will be adapted to the chamber, but, as above described, will answer equally well for the shot and selvagee wad.
When the ring is removed the worm will be equally efficient in drawing the selvagee wad.
Ten selvagee wads for shot and shell |On the breast-piece of the carriage, guns | strung on a pin.
On Monday night I could have sworn That maintop-stay it should adorn, On Tuesday morning I could swear That selvagee should not be there.
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Well, up the mast the sailors skipped, The selvagee was soon unshipped, And all were merry.
In place of the regular tackles to the bowsprit shrouds, two sets of selvagee strops were used, the one short and the other long.
Selvagee strops can be used for setting up the intermediate lengths.
Selvagee nippers are used when from a very great strain the common nippers are not found sufficiently secure; selvagees are then put on, and held fast by means of tree-nails.
My mind misgives me, sir, that we Were wrong about that selvagee - I should restore it.
In plain prose, Selvagee was one of those officers whom the sight of a trim-fitting naval coat had captivated in the days of his youth.
Selvagee had no further need to flourish his perfumed hand-kerchief.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "selvagee" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
