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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having, as a gun, trunnions with their axis below the line of bore.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Ordnance) Having trunnions the axes of which lie below the bore; -- said of a cannon.

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