crusher gauge

English

Alternative forms

• crusher gage (USA)

Noun

crusher gauge (plural crusher gauges)

1. An instrument for measuring the explosive force of gunpowder, etc., by its effect in compressing a piece of metal.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “crusher gauge”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)