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noun

Priming n.

The powder or other combustible used to communicate fire to a charge of gunpowder, as in a firearm.

(Paint.) The first coating of color, size, or the like, laid on canvas, or on a building, or other surface.

(Steam Eng.) The carrying over of water, with the steam, from the boiler, as into the cylinder.

Priming of the tide. See Lag of the tide, under 2d Lag.

Priming tube, a small pipe, filled with a combustible composition for firing cannon.

Priming valve (Steam Eng.), a spring safety valve applied to the cylinder of a steam engine for discharging water carried into the cylinder by priming.

Priming wire, a pointed wire used to penetrate the vent of a piece, for piercing the cartridge before priming.

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"Priming" Quotes from Famous Books

... heart. I saw the blaze of the priming as it puffed upward; the red flame projected from the muzzle, and simultaneously I felt the shock of the heavy bullet striking ...

— The War Trail - The Hunt of the Wild Horse • Mayne Reid

... Mr. Vardon. "The main supply is in the deck tank. But there is a small can in there for priming the cylinders, in ...

— Dick Hamilton's Airship - or, A Young Millionaire in the Clouds • Howard R. Garis

... of her think of anything interesting about Mrs. Butterfield, save that she possessed nineteen coffin plates, and brought her hens to Edgewood every summer for their health; but she had heard Elder Weeks make a moving discourse out of less than that. To be sure, he needed priming, but she was equal to that. There was Ivory Brown's funeral: how would that have gone on if it hadn't been for her? Wasn't the elder ten minutes late, and what would his remarks have amounted to without her suggestions? You might almost ...

— The Village Watch-Tower • (AKA Kate Douglas Riggs) Kate Douglas Wiggin

... thrust into the Hole with the Cartridge, the round side, whether the Priming-hole is, being uppermost, the other Wedge is to be thrust in, home to the due position, care being taken, that they fit the Hole in the Rock as exactly as may be. Then the end of the lower Wedge being about an Inch longer, than that of the upper outwardly, and flatned, priming Powder ...

— Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 • Various

... musket came into use, and they carried their ammunition in bandeliers, which were broad belts that came over the shoulder, to which were hung several little cases of wood covered with leather, each containing a charge of powder; the balls they carried loose in a pouch; and they had also a priming-horn hanging by their side. ...

— The Works of Samuel Johnson, Vol. 6 - Reviews, Political Tracts, and Lives of Eminent Persons • Samuel Johnson

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