Crossword clues for cascabel
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cascabel \Cas"ca*bel\, n. [Sp. cascabel a little bell, also (fr. the shape), a knob at the breech end of a cannon.] The projection in rear of the breech of a cannon, usually a knob or breeching loop connected with the gun by a neck. In old writers it included all in rear of the base ring.
Note: [See Illust. of Cannon.]
Wiktionary
n. 1 A small, round, hot variety of chili pepper, ''Capsicum annuum'', which rattles when dry. 2 A knob at the end of a cannon, cast onto the gun barrel, to which ropes are attached in order to control recoil. 3 A bell attached to a sleigh or sleigh harness.
WordNet
n. bell attached to a sleigh, or to harness of horse pulling a sleigh [syn: sleigh bell]
Wikipedia
Cascabel may refer to:
- Cascabel (artillery), a subassembly of a muzzle-loading cannon
- Cascabel chili, a small, round chili pepper
- Cascabel (roller coaster), a roller coaster at Chapultepec Park in Mexico City
- Spanish common name for Crotalus durissus, a venomous South American rattlesnake
- Cascabel, Arizona, a ghost town
- César Cascabel, a novel by Jules Verne
A cascabel is a subassembly of a muzzle-loading cannon - a place to attach arresting ropes to deal with the recoil of firing the cannon.
Generally comprising the knob (A) and the neck (B), with particular models also featuring a filet (C). By some definitions, the cascabel additionally includes the base of the breech (D). Cascabels varied in design and appearance, and were a common feature of cannons from the 17th century until the advent of the breech loading cannon in the late 19th century.
It was believed that cascabels from guns captured during the Siege of Sevastopol are used to make Victoria Crosses, however this has since proved to be incorrect & the metal is derived from Chinese cannon.
Usage examples of "cascabel".
The last thing we need is for all those wackos up around Cascabel to choose sides and start throwing stones.
I was up at Cascabel taking a missing-person report when this call came in.
Captain removes the old breeching from, and places and secures the bight of the new one in the jaws of the cascabel, after the gun is sponged.
When the breech of the gun is above the port-sill, hook the garnet and the thwart-ship-tackle to the cascabel, and bowse on both.
The best mode of securing the buoy-rope to the gun is to form a clinch or splice an eye in the end which goes over the cascabel, and take a half-hitch with the bight around the chase of the gun, and stop it with spun-yarn.
The hole in the cascabel for reeving a breeching has been purposely omitted in howitzers, as hitherto the use of a breeching has not been found necessary.
A set of templates for verifying the shape of lock-lugs, the angle of the rear sight mass, the curve between the base-line and the front of rear sight mass, that at the end of the cascabel, the bevel of the breeching-hole, the opening of the cascabel, and the shape of the muzzle swell.
Dahlgren pattern is tangent to the radius of the breech, is marked on the neck of the cascabel with a centre punch.
It recoiled freely against the thrust of ions accelerated to light speed, tumbling muzzle over cascabel to meet the shock wave plasma-driven in the opposite direction.
He explained how Los Yanquis Negros had brushed with Victorio at a place called Los Manantiales de Culebra de Cascabel and chased him across the border into Chihuahua.
Each of the now newly black-painted monsters was eight and a half feet long from muzzle to cascabel and together with its carriage weighed two tons.
The instrument is then set vertical, by a spirit-level on the cogged driving-wheel, and the four pairs of set screws on the clamp-head embracing the cascabel.