nondisappearing

English

Etymology

non- +‎ disappearing

Adjective

nondisappearing (not comparable)

  1. (military, historical) Being the kind of gun carriage that is not a disappearing carriage.
    • 1896, Fifth Report of the Board of Ordnance and Fortification, page 15:
      Allotments were made for the test of the gun-lift battery and the nondisappearing barbette carriages.
    • 1902, United States. Army. Corps of Engineers, Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers to the Secretary of War (part 1, page 9)
      12-inch gun-lift carriages, altered to nondisappearing.
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