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port-fire
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Dictionary of Nautical Terms
port-fire
A stick of composition, generally burning an inch a minute, used to convey fire from the slow-match or the like to the priming of ordnance, though superseded with most guns by locks or friction-tubes. With a slightly altered composition it is used for signals; also for firing charges of mines.
Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
port-fire
See Laboratory Stores.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of port-fire in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of port-fire in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
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