Bartender's question

Usage examples of chaser.

Villemin had ceased to trouble Bucephalas with his bow chasers, so all the noise had ceased.

Now Jack spoilt the beauty of the great cabin by causing Mr Gray to build the equivalent of a deep wing-transom, with the corresponding knees, massive enough to withstand the recoil of his brass ninepounders, so that by removing the stern windows as though to ship deadlights, together with some of the gingerbread-work from the gallery, he could use them as chasers, firing from a higher station than the more usual gunroom ports.

There will be two long culverins of twenty pounds for your chasers, twelve demiculverins for your waist-guns, and a brace of twelve-pounder demicannons for your quarterdeck.

It was a bare and unpeopled countryside on the border of Exmoor, so I bethought me that I could not employ my leisure better than by chasing the chasers.

Consequently, most broadside gunsthe lower-deck guns, certainlyare cannon, while the long-range, long-barreled, high-priced culverins are rarely seen mounted other than in bow and stern as chasers.

After a single broadside from each of their full batteries, the French wisely ceased use of the outranged guns, only essaying shots whenever the Revenge or the Krystal lay athwart bow or stern, where the longer-ranged chasers could be brought into play.

Just as he expected, the long-range scanners reported his chasers doing the same thing.

I left her to this uncozy decor and went outside again to where my chaser still patiently stood hitched to the railing.

I studied the skeleton display, picked out Brumby and Cunha, their squad leaders and section chasers.

There was a puff of white smoke from the bow chaser and a screaming shell struck and exploded, dismounting one of the six-pounders, the flying shards of iron casing killing or maiming every member of that gun crew and several caliver men besides.

Of course, when the lugger fled, Walid opened fire upon her, but she was very close to making good her escape when a chance lucky shot of the Fairley-made breechloading rifled chaser at extreme range took off her rudder and severely damaged her stern.

I figure with a Ship this slow we're more apt to be the chasee than the chaser.

It is a completely inappropriate setting for a high-speed automobile chase and offers limited opportunity for the chasees to elude the chaser.

Neck and neck they hurtled toward the Snitch -all the Chasers seemed to have forgotten what they were supposed to be doing as they hung in midair to watch.

No sound in this universal roar, and the smoke was swept instantly away, but it was clear that the seventy-four had opened up with her chasers, trained sharp forward from the bridle-ports in her bluff bows and that a lucky shot had struck right home, smashing his coffee-cup - a chance in a million.