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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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Etymology of 'Priming'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Priming" Quotes from Famous Books

... public mind with 'Lishe Betterson; but the name would not stick to a person of so much dignity of character. It was useless to argue that his dignity was mere pomposity; or that a man who, in building a fine house, broke down before he got the priming on, was unworthy of respect; still no one could look at him, or call up his image, and say, conscientiously, "'Lishe Betterson." He who, in this unsettled state of things, taking a hint from the middle name, pronounced boldly aloud, "LORD BETTERSON," ...

— The Young Surveyor; - or Jack on the Prairies • J. T. Trowbridge

... not above 40 men on board, and that they had lost the second mate and 20 hands in the long boat, on the coast, before they came into this harbor, but that they kept a good look out, and had their guns ready primed. However, he, for a hundred pounds, undertook to wet all the priming, and ...

— The Pirates Own Book • Charles Ellms

... Spaniard's bow guns, and the shot went wide. Then another and another, while the men fidgeted about, looking at the priming of their muskets, and loosened their arrows in ...

— Westward Ho! • Charles Kingsley

... and has a time-fuse at the tip. This fuse ignites a charge of black powder in the nose of the shell and this explosion ejects the star-shell out of the rear of the steel casing. At the same time the black powder ignites the priming mixture next to it, which in turn ignites the slow-burning illuminating compound. The star-shell has a large parachute of strong material folded in the rear of the casing and the cardboard tube containing the illuminating mixture is attached ...

— Artificial Light - Its Influence upon Civilization • M. Luckiesh

... extricating a double- barrelled fowling-piece from among a multitude of trunks and bandboxes. After throwing aside the thick mittens which had encased his hands, there now appeared a pair of leather gloves tipped with fur; he examined his priming, and was about to move forward, when the light bounding noise of an animal plunging through the woods was heard, and a fine buck darted into the path a short distance ahead of him. The appearance of ...

— The Pioneers • James Fenimore Cooper

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