dynamite gun

The dynamite gun was brought up to the right of the regimental line.

Dynamite guns were in use for a brief period from the 1880s to the beginning of the twentieth century.

The plan adopted was for the dynamite gun to throw a shell toward a designated point.

The shots from the dynamite gun made a terrific explosion, but they did not seem to go accurately.

The offer was accepted and she was used in an "experimental trial of the dynamite gun."

The dynamite gun was not with us, as mules for it could not be obtained in time.

The attendant on the dock said that the mysterious box contains a dynamite gun of the best make and latest improvements.

The Navy was impressed, and commissioned the construction of a specialized "dynamite gun cruiser."

She is considered a dynamite gun cruiser.

Even the professor was growing excited, holding the dynamite gun under one arm while gently tapping palms together as an encore.

We had succeeded in borrowing mules sufficient to carry along the dynamite gun and the automatic Colts.

By using compressed air, the dynamite gun was able to accelerate the projectile more gradually through the length of the barrel.

The Dudley-Sims dynamite gun used a smokeless powder charge to compress the air.

The dynamite gun had stuck in the ford of the Aguadores; a shell had got jammed in it.

She had a reloadable torpedo tube and a deck gun (a pneumatic dynamite gun).

In this firing all four of the Gatling guns were used; Tiffany's guns and the dynamite gun under Serg.

The next one after this, the fella in Mexico is lining up a Hotchkiss 12-pounder and that Sims Dudley dynamite gun.

When the soldiers inside these places refused to surrender, one of the Hotchkiss 12-pounders and the dynamite gun were moved to within a few yards of the front doors.

By 1900, the availability of stable high explosives, the longer range of conventional artillery, the gun's mechanical complexity, and its inherent limitations made the dynamite gun obsolete.

They worn brown canvas stable fatigues for field service, carried machetes in lieu of sabers and had a dynamite gun and Colt Machine guns.

From her deck, observers watched test firings of the 15-inch (381-millimeter) pneumatic rifles of the unique "dynamite gun cruiser" USS Vesuvius.

A dynamite gun is any of a class of artillery pieces distinguished by their specialized operating mechanism and purpose: they use compressed air to propel an explosive projectile.

There was some firing about this time from the Spanish trenches near Fort Canosa, at the 13th Infantry upon the hill where the dynamite gun was subsequently placed.

For his part in the taking of Las Tunas, and despite his fondness for the dynamite gun, Islero was rewarded with one of the Krupp fieldpieces.

Then, side by side, two Indian braves silently approached the aerostat, causing Professor Featherwit to make a hasty dive for his dynamite gun to repel a fancied onslaught.