The Collaborative International Dictionary
Very's night signals
Very's night signals \Ver"y's night signals\, or Very night signals \Ver"y night signals\ . [After Lieut. Samuel W. Very, who invented the system in 1877.] (Naut.) A system of signaling in which balls of red and green fire are fired from a pistol, the arrangement in groups denoting numbers having a code significance. The pistol used to fire the signal flare is called a
Very pistol.