What is to clean, as the inside of a cannon, by the explosion of a small quantity of powder. Totten called?
scale — (Gun.) To clean, as the inside of a cannon, by the explosion of a small quantity of powder. Totten. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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