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Woolwich. World English Historical Dictionary

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Woolwich. 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. Woolwich The name of a town in Kent, used attrib., esp. to designate productions of its old dockyard and the Royal Arsenal, as Woolwich-gun, -hulk; also Woolwich-beds Geol. (see quot. 1859); Woolwich infant, a jocular name given to a class of heavy guns.

1 1794.  Burns, Epist. fr. Esopus, 40. The shrinking Bard … dreads a meeting worse than Woolwich hulks.

2 1859.  Page, Handbk. Geol. Terms, Woolwich-beds, a name occasionally employed by English geologists to designate those beds of plastic and mottled clays, sands, and rolled flint-pebbles which lie between the ‘Thanet Sands’ and the ‘London Clay.’

3 1871.  Ruskin, Fors Clav., ii. 21. The 35-ton gun called the ‘Woolwich infant,’ which is fed with 700 pound shot and 130 pounds of gunpowder at one mouthful.

4 1875.  W. T. Vincent, Warlike Woolrich, 30, note. The name of the ‘Woolwich Infant’ … was suggested to the writer of these pages by Sergeant Major Adamson, of the Depot Brigade, Royal Artillery.

5 1876.  Voyle & Stevenson, Milit. Dict. (ed. 3), 472. Woolwich Gun, a gun rifled on the French system, with this modification, that the grooves are shallower, and have their corners rounded off.

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