Bench Mark

A stone placed to mark a level accurately fixed by instruments. Benet-Mereie — An automatic machine small arm adopted …?un. by the United States, weighing about 22 pounds and six of them giving about the same volume of fire as a battalion of infantry. Its caliber is.30 inches; air cooled. r Light. — A brilliant signal light, used in pyrotechny for illuminating a district of country and prepared from niter, sulphur and tersulphuxet of antimony. Also written ben Kola. — In bridge building a framed portion of trestlework, usually put together on the ground and then raised to its place.