Assertion: artillery | /r/HasProperty | loaded
Facets:
value: from the muzzle
type: MANNER
value: by engaging the studs
type: MANNER
value: from the rear
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: The earliest guns were loaded from the muzzle.
text: After the guns are loaded and oriented, the mission is fired.
text: The gun was loaded from the rear, the breech being closed by a “vent-piece” of steel that was dropped into a vertical slot and secured there by a large-diameter screw.
text: The gun was loaded from the muzzle by engaging the studs in the grooves before ramming the shell.
text: When the gun was loaded, and ready to be fired, the #4 man of the gun crew would insert a friction primer into the vent, attach the hook of the lanyard to the loop of the primer, back away the 12 feet that the length of the cord was and wait for the command to fire given by the gunner.