Hooks

Pieces of bent iron fixed to the transom plates of a field-carriage. They serve to fix the briooles or ropes for drawing it occasionally backwards or forwards. - wivel. — A device intended for dispensing with the nece ity of the triangular bayonet 297 in stacking arms. Tftvfe … are so attached to the upper bands that it is easy to insert each hook into the swivels of the two remaining guns nece ary to complete the stack.