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- Priming - p. pr. & vb. n. - of Prime
- Priming - n. - The powder or other combustible used to communicate fire to a charge of gunpowder, as in a firearm.
- Priming - n. - The first coating of color, size, or the like, laid on canvas, or on a building, or other surface.
- Priming - n. - The carrying over of water, with the steam, from the boiler, as into the cylinder.
- Prime - v. i. - To serve as priming for the charge of a gun.
- Portfire - n. - A case of strong paper filled with a composition of niter, sulphur, and mealed powder, -- used principally to ignite the priming in proving guns, and as an incendiary material in shells.
- Picker - n. - A priming wire for cleaning the vent.
- Firelock - n. - An old form of gunlock, as the flintlock, which ignites the priming by a spark; perhaps originally, a matchlock. Hence, a gun having such a lock.
- Tube - n. - A priming tube, or friction primer. See under Priming, and Friction.
- Auget - n. - A priming tube connecting the charge chamber with the gallery, or place where the slow match is applied.
- Impression - n. - In painting, the first coat of color, as the priming in house painting and the like.
- Prime - a. - To apply priming to, as a musket or a cannon; to apply a primer to, as a metallic cartridge.
- Pricker - n. - A priming wire; a priming needle, -- used in blasting and gunnery.