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Windage. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1928, rev. 2024. Windage [f. WIND sb.1 + -AGE.]

1   1.  An allowance of space (for expansion of gas in firing) between the inner wall of a fire-arm and the shot or shell with which it is charged: measured by the difference of the diameters of the bore and the shot.

2 1710.  J. Harris, Lex. Techn., II.

3 1778.  Hutton, in Phil. Trans., LXVIII. 84. It would also be an improvement to diminish the windage; for by so doing, one third or more of the quantity of powder might be saved.

4 1860.  Abp. Thomson, Laws Th., § 117. 238. The windage of a loose ball in the barrel of the piece.

5   2.  Allowance made (esp. in shooting) for deflection from the direct course by the wind; such deflection itself.

6 1867.  Morning Star, 30 July, 6. At half-past nine the firing commenced … but with a breeze almost too strong for accurate aiming, and considerable ‘windage’ was required.

7 1891.  Conan Doyle, White Company, iv. ‘Seven yards windage, Hal,’ said one.

8 1897.  A. C. Pemberton, et al., Complete Cyclist, iii. 78. This will prove quite sufficient, and save a good deal of windage.

9 1898.  Westm. Gaz., 26 May, 4/1. [Yachts in which] an innovation is made … giving a maximum of head room with a minimum of windage.

10   3.  = WIND sb.1 13; also, the friction of the air upon a moving part of a machine.

11 1889.  Buck’s Handbk. Med. Sci., VIII. 11/1. To support the idea of injuries from the ‘windage’ or balls.

12 1903.  Nature, 29 Oct., 635/1. The power wasted by the windage of fly-wheel and dynamo armatures.

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