"cylinder" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The cylinder revolves around a central axis in the revolver to bring each individual chamber into alignment with the barrel for firing.
- In many of these (especially those that were converted long after manufacture), the pin on which the cylinder revolved was removed, and the cylinder taken from the gun for loading.
- He touched one of the levers, the cylinder revolved and the box began to play Mozart's minuet in G. After two bars he switched it off.
- Slowly the hammer started back and the cylinder revolved, bringing the empty-casing-filled chamber into line with the barrel.
- Twisting free of low-hung timbers, a mammoth cylinder revolved into the net.
- As the cylinder revolves, the teeth vibrate and emit sound.
- First, the throat in a revolver is at least as long as the maximum overall length of the cartridge, otherwise the cylinder cannot revolve.
- The vertical cylinder revolved.
- Then Sing pulled the trigger again and again, but the cylinder would not revolve and the hammer fell futilely upon the empty cartridge.
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