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free run

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free run [¦frē ′rən]
(ordnance)
As applied to guns, the travel of a projectile from its original position in the gun chamber until it engages with the rifling in the gun bore.
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It was a story that Philip was not unaccustomed to: the husband had been a soldier in India; the legislation forced upon that country by the prudery of the English public had given a free run to the most distressing of all diseases; the innocent suffered.
Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
He had made them spacious {126} and fair to see, with a free run for the pigs all round them; he had built them during his master's absence, of stones which he had gathered out of the ground, without saying anything to Penelope or Laertes, and he had fenced them on top with thorn bushes.
The Odyssey by Homer View in context
Well, when the sap begins to get a free run, I hang over the kettles, and set up the bush.
The Pioneers by Cooper, James Fenimore View in context
 
 
 
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