TERTIATE
, in Gunnery. To Tertiate a great gun, is to examine the thickness of the metal at the muzzle, by which to judge of the strength of the piece, and whether it be sufficiently fortified or not.
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Entry taken from A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, by Charles Hutton, 1796.
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