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"14th. House your guns.—The seizing is to be put on again upon the clinched end of the breeching, leaving it no slacker than to admit of the gun's being housed with ease. The quoin is to be taken from under the breech of the gun, and the bed, still resting upon the bolt, within the carriage, thrust under, till the foot of it falls on the axle-tree, leaving it to rest upon the end which projects out from the foot. The metal is to be let down upon this. The gun is to be placed exactly square, and the muzzle is to be close to the wood, in its proper place for passing the muzzle lashings."
—Falconer's New Universal Dictionary of the Marine, 1815
October 10, 2008