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Sentence Examples
In cannons a small touchhole was drilled into the breech and filled with fine powder.
Firing was apparently accomplished by applying a red-hot wire to a touchhole drilled through the top of the thickest part of the breech.
Pulling up on the bottom of the serpentine brought the tip of the match down into contact with powder in the flashpan, a small, saucer-shaped depression surrounding the touchhole atop the barrel.
When loading for hunting, place a touchhole pick fully into the touch hole.
Examples from Classical Literature
It always is there with men of Bertie's order, and only comes to light when the match of danger is applied to the touchhole.
One of the guns apparently missed fire, and as he was placing fresh powder in the touchhole the stuff went off.
Then he laid that match to the touchhole and another rain of iron swept down the street.
Carefully, deliberately, Pamela Russell lowered her candle to the cannon's touchhole.
The first charge was twenty pounds of powder, not more than nineteen of them running out of the touchhole.
There rose a little smoke from the touchhole plate, but no shot resounded.
When I went online, I found one source that offers a repro with no hole drilled for the touchhole so it can be sold in England as a showpiece.
One of the men inserted a percussion fuse in the touchhole of the mortar.
My religion consists in a firelock, open touchhole, good flint, well rammed charge, and seventy rounds of powder and ball.
The barrel with its touchhole and the stock of the matchlock are self-explanatory.
Still, one wonders just what would happen if this contrivance's gunner accidentally had a flashover from one touchhole to the next.
Built in India, the touchhole isn't drilled, so the importer can ship these almost anywhere in the USA without paperwork.
The spark from the cap travels through the touchhole, igniting the charge of black powder that sends the small lead ball on its way down the bore.
Early firearms called hand cannons were fired by introducing a glowing ember into a touchhole that led to the powder charge inside and did not require a trigger.
