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Windage   Listen
noun
Windage  n.  
1.
(Gun.) The difference between the diameter of the bore of a gun and that of the shot fired from it.
2.
The sudden compression of the air caused by a projectile in passing close to another body.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Windage" Quotes from Famous Books



... was big shells an' little shells an' middle-sized shells, roarin' an' shrieking up and bursting H.E. shrapnel or smashing into the ground. If there was one threw dirt over us there was a dozen. One buzzed close past and burst about twenty feet in front of the F.O., and either the windage or the explosion lifted him off his feet and clean rolled him over. I thought he was a goner again, but when I came up to him he was picking himself up, an' spittin' dirt an' language out between his teeth, an' none the worse except for the shakin'. We couldn't find that break. We ...
— Between the Lines • Boyd Cable



Words linked to "Windage" :   wind exposure, deflection, wind deflection, retarding force, deflexion, diam, diameter, drag



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