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Windage   Listen
noun
Windage  n.  
1.
(Gun.) The difference between the diameter of the bore of a gun and that of the shot fired from it.
2.
The sudden compression of the air caused by a projectile in passing close to another body.





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"Windage" Quotes from Famous Books



... combination of sarcastic respect and contemptuous politeness produced an insolence that none except kings would tolerate for a moment; but Jinendra's fat high priest could guess how far he dared go, as shrewdly as a marksman's guesses windage. ...
— Guns of the Gods • Talbot Mundy
... the British shot, and some of the older ones, about 9 per cent. The average is safe to take at 7 per cent. less, and I shall throughout make this allowance for ocean cruisers. The deficit was sometimes owing to windage, but more often the shot was of full size but defective in density. The effect of this can be gathered from the following quotation from the work of a British artillerist: "The greater the density of shot of like calibres, projected with equal velocity and elevation, the greater the range, accuracy, ...
— The Naval War of 1812 • Theodore Roosevelt
... toss their hooks and bait over the rail from shelter and slowly to pay the lines out as the slight windage of the Elsinore's hull, spars, and rigging drifted her through the water. When a bird was hooked they hauled in the line, still from shelter, till it was alongside. This was the ticklish moment. The hook, merely a hollow and acute-angled triangle of sheet-copper floating on a piece of ...
— The Mutiny of the Elsinore • Jack London


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