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Trail.


Ordnance.) The end of the stock of a guncarriage, which rests upon the ground when a gun is “unlimbered,” or in position for firing. The stock proper is inserted into a forked iron plate, the lunette, having a loop wrought on its outer extremity, which is passed over the pintle-hook of the limber when the gun is limbered up.


2. (Architecture.) A running enrichment of leaves, flowers, tendrils, etc., in the hollow moldings of Gothic architecture.

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