Definition for OR'GUES

OR'GUES, n. [Fr.]

  1. In the military art, long thick pieces of timber, pointed and shod with iron and hung over a gateway, to be let down in case of attack. Encyc.
  2. A machine composed of several musket barrels united, by means of which several explosions are made at once to defend breaches. Cyc.

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