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Definition of Runnions
1. runnion [n] - See also: runnion
Lexicographical Neighbors of Runnions
Literary usage of Runnions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Ordnance Manual for the Use of Officers of the United States Army by United States Army. Ordnance Dept (1850)
"To verify the position of the axis of the ¡runnions: set the trunnion-square on the
... If the alignment of the (runnions be accurate, the edges of the ..."
2. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell by Thomas Bayly Howell (1816)
"... and, for this purpose, he had carts and torses along with him, and proper
instruments or spiking the cannon, and beating off th« runnions : but then, ..."
3. The Rebellion Record. Supplement.--First Volume by Edward Everett (1864)
"The shells for the nine-inch Dahlgrens were Iso too large; the fourth shell
attempted to be rammed home, could not be driven below the .runnions, ..."
4. The Technology of Sugar by John Geddes M'Intosh (1916)
"11- If E JUICE- steel- The tubes ff B"*!3<Bo '"' i|S!1(lt() 'I"" is jointed to
at\v<i runnions carried oI ..."
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