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Caisson

noun

An ornamental sunken panel in a ceiling or dome. Synonyms: coffer, lacuna.

A two-wheeled military vehicle carrying artillery ammunition.

A chest to hold ammunition. Synonym: ammunition chest.

Large watertight chamber used for construction under water. Synonyms: cofferdam, pneumatic caisson.

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"Caisson" Quotes from Famous Books

... Jizo. From the ceiling above him droop the dingy splendours of a sort of dais-work, a streaming circle of pendants like a fringe, shimmering faintly through the webbed dust of centuries. And the ceiling itself must once have been a marvel; all beamed in caissons, each caisson containing, upon a gold ground, the painted figure of a flying bird. Formerly the eight great pillars supporting the roof were also covered with gilding; but only a few traces of it linger still upon their worm-pierced surfaces, and about the bases of their ...

— Glimpses of an Unfamiliar Japan - First Series • Lafcadio Hearn

... man, not being fastened to the traces, can be pushed aside and his place taken without even stopping the march. An officer and a subordinate officer of artillery were placed in charge of each carriage or caisson, with the promise of six hundred francs for the transport of each gun or wagon beyond ...

— The Companions of Jehu • Alexandre Dumas

... in front the surface sloped downward to a hollow; the slope and the hollow were covered with forest; what was on the hill beyond we could not see, but the Yankee batteries were there and at work. A caisson of Crenshaw's exploded. Troops were coming into line far to ...

— Who Goes There? • Blackwood Ketcham Benson

... unsuspicious of what was brewing, came slowly and steadily along the road. Slowly, because not only is a 77-millimetre gun with its caisson a heavy weight, but also because the road was merely an apology for one. It was nothing but a deeply rutted track thick ...

— On Land And Sea At The Dardanelles • Thomas Charles Bridges

... We had not gone far before the Rebel gunners in the main works around the City discovered us; and the way they did tear loose at us was a caution. Their aim was rather bad, however, and most of their shots went over us. We saw one of them—I think it was a shell—strike an artillery caisson belonging to one of our-batteries. It exploded as it struck, and then the caisson, which was full of ammunition, exploded with an awful noise, throwing pieces of wood and iron and its own load of shot and ...

— Andersonville, complete • John McElroy

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