Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for OR'GUES
OR-GIL'LOUSOR'I-CHALC, or OR-I-CHAL'CUM
OR'GUES, n. [Fr.]
- 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.
- 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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