Monkeytail


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Mon´key`tail`


n.1.(Naut.) A short, round iron bar or lever used in naval gunnery.
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The so-called Westley-Richards "Monkeytail" was declared suitable, and while the Army refused to adopt it, thousands were sold to the various Yeomany and Volunteer units and a carbine version was adopted by the cavalry.
Military rifle cartridges of Great Britain: Part I: from monkey tail to mafeking
Monkeytail 24-piece cutlery set, pounds 49.50, Really Linda Barker (0870 242 0651, www.reallylindabarker.co.uk)
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The 1860s saw the Portuguese army replace an assortment of English, French and Spanish muskets and rifled muskets with Westley-Richards "Monkeytail" rifles and carbines.
The Portuguese Mod. 1904 Mauser Vergueiro: with the 98 Mauser just introduced, would you have gone back to the split-bridge receiver of the Gew 88? Portugal did, and the Mod. 1904 served for decades
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