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whit·worth gun
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Webster Dictionary
Whitworth gun
a form of rifled cannon and small arms invented by Sir Joseph Whitworth, of Manchester, England
Dictionary of Nautical Terms
whitworth gun
A piece rifled by having a twisted hexagonal bore, and throwing a more elongated shot with a sharper twist than the Armstrong gun, with results experimentally more beautiful, but not yet so practically useful.
Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
whitworth gun
See Ordnance, Construction of.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of whitworth gun in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of whitworth gun in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
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