Reliever

an iron ring fixed to a handle by means of a socket, so as to be at right angles to it: it serves to disengage the searcher of a gun, when one of its points is retained in a hole, and cannot be got out otherwise. See Searcher. A REMAIN , a term used among store-keepers belonging to the board of ordnance, . to expre the actual quantity of stores which is found at an outport, . when a new store-keeper is appointed.