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obturate


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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Obturate  \Ob"tu*rate\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Obturated};  p.  pr  & 
  vb  n.  {Obturating}.]  [L.  obturatus  p.p.  of  obturare.] 
  To  stop  or  close  as  an  opening;  specif.,  (Ordnance),  to  stop 
  (a  gun  breech)  so  as  to  prevent  the  escape  of  gas  in  firing. 




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