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Cowardice, and desertion of duty in fight
| Глоссарий морской лексики и терминологии (английский язык) |
Are criminal by law, even in the crew of a merchant-ship. such poltroonery is very rare.
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Cowd, английский
- To float slowly. a scotch term, as “the boat cowds braely awa.”
- Cost of work done
Covered way, английский
In fortification, a space running along the outside of the ditch for the convenient passage of troops and guns, covered from the country by a palisading and the parapet of the glacis. it is of importance to an active defence, as besides enabling a powerful musketry fire to be poured on the near approaches of the besieger, it affords to the garrison a secure base from which to sally in force at any hour of the day or night.
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