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Primer :: Primer (n.) an instrument or device for priming; esp., a cap, tube, or water containing percussion powder or other compound for igniting a charge of gunpowder..

Epinglette :: Epinglette (n.) An iron needle for piercing the cartridge of a cannon before priming.

Prime :: Prime (v. i.) To serve as priming for the charge of a gun.

Tube :: Tube (n.) A priming tube, or friction primer. See under Priming, and Friction..

Pan :: Pan (n.) The part of a flintlock which holds the priming.

Flintlock :: Flintlock (n.) A lock for a gun or pistol, having a flint fixed in the hammer, which on striking the steel ignites the priming..

Prime :: Prime (a.) To apply priming to, as a musket or a cannon; to apply a primer to, as a metallic cartridge..

Auget :: Auget (n.) A priming tube connecting the charge chamber with the gallery, or place where the slow match is applied..

Matchlock :: Matchlock (n.) An old form of gunlock containing a match for firing the priming; hence, a musket fired by means of a match..

Priming :: Priming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Prim.

Morsing Horn :: Morsing horn () A horn or flask for holding powder, as for priming..

Impriming :: Impriming (n.) A beginning.

Firelock :: Firelock (n.) An old form of gunlock, as the flintlock, which ignites the priming by a spark; perhaps originally, a matchlock. Hence, a gun having such a lock..

Priming :: Priming (n.) The powder or other combustible used to communicate fire to a charge of gunpowder, as in a firearm..

Priming :: Priming (n.) The carrying over of water, with the steam, from the boiler, as into the cylinder..

Priming :: Priming (n.) The first coating of color, size, or the like, laid on canvas, or on a building, or other surface..

Hammer :: Hammer (n.) That part of a gunlock which strikes the percussion cap, or firing pin; the cock; formerly, however, a piece of steel covering the pan of a flintlock musket and struck by the flint of the cock to ignite the priming..

Picker :: Picker (n.) A priming wire for cleaning the vent.

Impression :: Impression (n.) In painting, the first coat of color, as the priming in house painting and the like..

Portfire :: Portfire (n.) A case of strong paper filled with a composition of niter, sulphur, and mealed powder, -- used principally to ignite the priming in proving guns, and as an incendiary material in shells..

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