revolver

[Eng. revolv (e); -er.] 1. One who or that which revolves; spec if., a firearm, usually a pistol, having a revolving barrel or breech cylinder, so as to discharge several charges in quick succe ion without being reloaded. In some pistols the barrel has a plurality of bores, in which the charges are inserted and from which they are tired; more commonly, as in Colt's, the weapon has a cylinder at the base of the barrel containing several chambers, generally six, in which the charges are placed, and all are fired through the single barrel; in all the rotation is caused by devices actuated by the lock mechanism. Some forms of the weapon are breech-loading. The system has been applied to rifles and other guns, as the Mitrailleuse (q. v.). The system is not new, revolving firearms dating from the fifteenth ntury being still in existence; but it was first made a practical succe by Col. Samuel Colt of the United States army in 1835. 2. Husb .: A hay or stubble rake whose head has two sets of teeth on opposite sides in the same plane. The set in advance having collected a load, the rake is tipped, making half a revolution, dis charging the load, and bringing the other set of teeth into action. rě-võlv-ing, pr . par . or a. [REVOLVE.] Turning or rolling round; rotating; having a motion in an orbit, as that of a planet around the sun; the cylinder of a revolving-cylinder steam-engine around the shaft; the planet-wheel of the sun-and planet motion around the sun-wheel. IMG:content-0588.png:[blocks in formation] revolving-harrow, s. I. Ordinary Language : 3455 *rew, s. [Row (1), s.] re-wake', *re-wāk-en, v . i. or t . [Pref. re-, and Eng. wake (q.v.).] To wake or waken again. "Him to rewaken she did all her pain." Chaucer: Troilus and Cre eide, iii. re-ward, v . t . [O. French rewarder , the same as regarder to regard, from re- (Lat. re -)=back, and warder , the same as garder =guard (q. v.).] 1. To give in return, whether good or evil; to return, to requite. (Said of the return made.) 2. To requite, to recompense, to repay; to bestow a recompense, return, or requital on; whether good or evil, now generally the former. (Said of the person to whom the return is made.) re-ward', *re-warde, subst. [O. Fr. reward, the same as regard.] [REWARD, v.] *1. Regard, respect, notice. "Take rewarde of thyn owne vale we, that thou ne be to foule to thy selfe." -Chaucer: Parsones Tale. 2. That which is given in return for good or evil done or received; a recompense, a requital, a re turn: (1) (In a good sense): Recompense for good done; an honor, a prize. (2) (In a bad sense): Requital, return, or punishment of evil; retribution. *3. The fruit of men's works, labor, or conduct. "The dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward." - Eccles. ix. 5. 4. A sum of money offered for the taking or detect ing of a criminal, or for the recovery of anything lost. re-ward-a-ble, a. [Eng. reward; -able.] Capable of being rewarded; deserving of reward. re-ward-a-ble-ne , s. [English rewardable; -ne .) The quality or state of being rewardable or worthy of reward. re-ward-a-bly, adv. [Eng. rewardab ( le ); -ly.] In a rewardable manner or degree; so as to be worthy of reward.