CASCABEL

, the knob or button of metal behind the breech of a cannon, as a kind of handle by which to elevate and direct the piece; to which some add the fillet and ogees as far as the base-ring.

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Entry taken from A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, by Charles Hutton, 1796.

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