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MAGAZINE to MARLING-SPIKE
MAGAZINE
MAGAZINE, (foute au poudres, Fr.) a close room or store-house, built in the fore, or after-part of a ship's hold, to contain the gunpowder used in battle, &c. This apartment is strongly secured against fire, and no person is suffered to enter it with a lamp or candle: it is therefore lighted, as occasion requires, by means of the candles or lamps which are fixed in the light-room contiguous to it. See that article.
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© Derived from Thomas Cadell's new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 186, 2003
Prepared by Paul Turnbull
http://southseas.nla.gov.au/refs/falc/0840.html