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Priming Crossword Clue and Answers List

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COCKING Priming (gun)
PICKER A priming wire for cleaning the vent.
PAN The part of a flintlock which holds the priming.
PRIME To serve as priming for the charge of a gun.
MORSING HORN A horn or flask for holding powder, as for priming.
TUBE A priming tube, or friction primer. See under Priming, and Friction.
PRICKER A priming wire; a priming needle, -- used in blasting and gunnery.
EPINGLETTE An iron needle for piercing the cartridge of a cannon before priming.
IMPRESSION In painting, the first coat of color, as the priming in house painting and the like.
AUGET A priming tube connecting the charge chamber with the gallery, or place where the slow match is applied.
MATCHLOCK An old form of gunlock containing a match for firing the priming; hence, a musket fired by means of a match.
FLINTLOCK A lock for a gun or pistol, having a flint fixed in the hammer, which on striking the steel ignites the priming.
PRIMER An instrument or device for priming; esp., a cap, tube, or water containing percussion powder or other compound for igniting a charge of gunpowder.
FIRELOCK 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.
PORTFIRE 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.
HAMMER ... struck by the flint of the cock to ignite the priming. ...
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