What is "canisters"

Usage examples of "canisters".

Vittoria aligned the scope with one of the canisters, peered into the eyepiece, and calibrated some knobs.

The canisters are screwed into a docking port that continuously recharges them so the magnets never fail.

The vehicles carried twelve plainclothed Swiss Guards armed with Cherchi-Pardini semiautomatics, local-radius nerve gas canisters, and long-range stun guns.

Kohler coughed and moved toward the canisters like a wary animal circling something he instinctively sensed was wrong.

They were safe for a moment, hidden from the gunners by the houses, but Sharpe knew that as soon as they emerged onto the bridge the canisters would begin to rattle the ancient stones.

Two canisters to a gun, say seventy balls in each, and twenty four guns firing.

The canisters burst and spread their death over the attackers, gun after gun, the shots coming singly or in small groups, and the lead balls hammered like hard rain on the stones, timber and bodies in the wasteland.

Maybe only specific types of chemical canisters remained intact when detonated.

Maybe the other intact canisters had been collected for study-or to hide evidence.

When his hands touched the cool metal of the canisters, the fire turned to ash.

After Alan had gone, Griffith sat down in a chair to wait for a reasonable amount of time, his gaze wan- dering to the six stainless canisters in restless antici- pation.