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5th. Run out your guns.—With the tackles hooked to the upper-bolts of the carriage, the gun is to be bowsed out as close as possible, without the assistance of crows or handspikes, taking care, at the same time, to keep the breeching clear of the trucks, by hauling it through the rings; it is then to be bent so as to run clear when the gun is fired. When the gun is run out, the tackle-falls are to be laid alongside the carriages in neat fakes, that when the gun, by recoiling, overhauls them, they may not be subject to get foul, as they would do if in a common coil."
—Falconer's New Universal Dictionary of the Marine, 1815
October 10, 2008