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TRAIN

Volume 18 · 55 words · 1797 Edition

a line of gunpowder laid to give fire to a quantity thereof, in order to do execution by blowing up earth, works, buildings, &c.

**Train of Artillery**, includes the great guns and other pieces of ordnance belonging to an army in the field.

**Train-Oil**, the oil procured from the blubber of a whale by boiling.