18 Verbs to Use for the Word projectiles

A few minutes after liftoff, he fired the projectile.

And now up runs Baptiste, covered with slime, and prepares to cast his projectiles.

It results from this that although guns of great length are capable of throwing projectiles with small charges, it is possible to use shorter pieces for this purposesuch as howitzers for curved shots and mortars for vertical ones.

Whitworth employs a solid iron or steel projectile dressed by machinery beforehand to fit the rifling.

He began by tickling up the Stickybacks with an unpleasant engine called the Minenwerfer, which despatches a large sausage-shaped projectile in a series of ridiculous somersaults, high over No Man's Land into the enemy's front-line trench, where it explodes and annihilates everything in that particular bay.

Certainly the Zeppelin which I saw in action had nothing of the kind, nor did it drop its projectiles promiscuously, as one would drop a stone, but apparently discharged them from a bomb-tube.

When set at practicable angles, inclined armor does not glance flat-fronted projectiles.

Then he handed the projectile back to me.

"I forget their size, and how far they can hurl a projectile.

They had also the singular custom of making the radish the ignominious projectile with which in times of tumult the mob pursued persons whose political opinions had made them obnoxious.

As regards the projectiles that this weapon throws, the ordinary shell is 33 inches in length, and weighs, all charged, 656 pounds, and the exploding shell, of the same length, weighs, all charged, 1,160 pounds.

She also was encased in 21-1/2 inches of compound steel and iron armor, capable of resisting the projectiles of any cannon knownexcept, perhaps, those of her own Armstrongs.

"Why did Zimbardo tell the entire planet that he was going to pulverize it, and then set his projectile on a fly-by course?"

The ammunition lift brings up the projectile and charge, which latter is subdivided, like those employed in the German guns, in succession to the breech, the hydraulic rammer forcing them home.

They thrust the first projectile into the breech of the cannon while the gunner made an effort to distinguish that small black cane hardly perceptible among the tossing waves.

They were actually in the midst of a storm of bursting projectiles and in immediate peril of having some damage done to their swift-flying planes such as would spell ruin to the enterprise, perhaps bring instant death to some of the fliers!

Some one looking across the country towards Atawineh saw a huge mushroom-shaped cloud, and then we knew that one enormous dump at least contained no more projectiles to hold up an advance.

Then, with the fine metal saw, he began to cut the projectile, lengthwise, into two slightly unequal parts.

18 Verbs to Use for the Word  projectiles