Citations:bush


 * 1719 — Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe.
 * How it came thither I knew not, nor could I in the least imagine; but after innumerable fluttering thoughts, like a man perfectly confused and out of myself, I came home to my fortification, not feeling, as we say, the ground I went on, but terrified to the last degree, looking behind me at every two or three steps, mistaking every bush and tree, and fancying every stump at a distance to be a man.

gun term

 * 1879, John Fletcher Owen, Treatise on the Construction and Manufacture of Ordnance in the British Service Prepared in the Royal Gun Factory, page 48:
 * Vent bush . Copper . Steel . Wrought iron . Position . In R.B.L. guns . In S.B. and R.M.L. Having constructed our gun ... the bush is placed at an angle of 45 ° with the perpendicular, and the vent hole will therefore be at the top ...
 * 1883, Sisson Cooper Pratt, Field artillery, page 8:
 * The strength of the gun - barrel is less affected by a number of shallow grooves than a few deep ones . ... a vent bush or plug of copper, conical in shape , is screwed into a cavity cut in the gun , and contains the vent hole.
 * 1951, Greville Bathe, Ship of Destiny: A Record of the U.S. Steam Frigate Merrimac, 1855-1862
 * The vent for firing the main charge was a copper or iron bouching ( bush ) screwed into the breech . On the largest guns the vent hole was lined with platinum . The wear on this part of the gun was extreme as the rush of gas at white ...
 * 1877, Great Britain. War Office, Abridged Treatise on the construction and manufacture of ordnance in the British service, page 12:
 * II . vent hole will therefore be at the top right side in such guns for broadside and garrison service ... It was therefore settled that heavy guns . heavy guns should be rented so that the bush should strike the bore at that † distance ...