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Definition: PIVOT GUN |
PIVOT GUN1. A gun mounted on a pivot or revolving carriage, so as to turn in any direction. |
Crosswords: PIVOT GUN |
| English words defined with "PIVOT GUN": long tom. (references) |
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![]() | Ship's officers and crewmen pose on deck, while she was serving on the James River, Virginia, August 1864. Commander Alexander C. Rhind, ship's Commanding Officer, is at the extreme right with his foot on the ladder. Standing next to him is Assistant Surgeon Herman P. Babcock. Lieutenant George Dewey is in the right center, wearing a straw hat, directly below the end of the davit. The pivot gun is one of the ship's two 100-pounder Parrot rifles. Note Marine in the left foreground. Credit: NAVY. | ![]() | Photographed during the Civil War, circa 1862-65. The pivot gun port, just forward of the smokestack, is closed in this view. The original photograph is the left side of a stereograph pair. Credit: NAVY. |
![]() | Crewmembers by the ship's Dahlgren XI-inch pivot gun and foremast, during the Civil War. Copied from Francis Trevelyan Miller's "The Photographic History of the Civil War" Volume 6, page 43. This photograph is the right half of a wider image, with Photo # NH 42265 being the left half. Credit: NAVY. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-i-n-o-p-t-u-v" | |
-1 letter: pouting. | |
-2 letters: opting, outing, pignut, pigout, toping, voting. | |
-3 letters: gipon, ingot, input, oping, pingo, pinot, pinto, piton, pivot, point, punto, puton, tigon, ungot. | |
-4 letters: gout, into, ping, pint, pion, pong, pout, pung, punt, ting, tong, topi, tung, unit, unto, upon, vino. | |
-5 letters: gin, gip, git, gnu, got, gun, gut, guv, ion, nip, nit, nog, not. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-i-n-o-p-t-u-v" | |
+4 letters: overtrumping. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 49 56 4F 54      47 55 4E |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01001001 01010110 01001111 01010100 00100000 01000111 01010101 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P I V O T   G U N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0049 0056 004F 0054      0047 0055 004E |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)50435649542415548 |
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