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salvo

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salvo Rare
(in legal documents) a saving clause; reservation

salvo [′sal·vō]
(ordnance)
A simultaneous, or nearly simultaneous, discharge of shots from two or more closely placed guns or launchers against the same target.
The release of several bombs or rocket missiles simultaneously, or in close train, from one or more aircraft, at a single target.
The aggregate of shots, bombs, or rockets so discharged or released.


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George's, where the troops should fire a salvo over his grave, and where many a gallant officer lies far away from his home.
A party of them came on first, and viewed our posture, traversing the ground in the front of our line; and, as we found them within gunshot, our leader ordered the two wings to advance swiftly, and give them a salvo on each wing with their shot, which was done.
The weather was breaking up, breaking, broken, and it is a sense of the fit rather than of the supernatural that equips such crises with the salvos of angelic artillery.
 
 
 
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